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Tennyson

Type:: shipwreck, schooner barge, USA ( formerly a clipper )
Built:: 1864, Goss & Sawyer, Bath ME USA, as Ocean Signal
Specs:: ( 187 x 38 ft ) 1265 gross tons, 4 crew
Sunk:: Wednesday January 26, 1898
foundered in storm - no survivors
Depth:: 110 ft

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Texas Tower TT-4

Type:: collapsed radar platform, USAF
Built:: 1955, Portland ME USA
Specs:: ( 67 ft above water) 6000 tons, 14 crew (minimum)
Sunk:: Sunday January 15, 1961
storm/structural failure/design deficiency - no survivors
GPS:: 39°47'56.43" -72°40'08.00" (US Navy 2004)
Depth:: 180 ft, starts at 110 ft

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Texel

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA
Name:: Texel is the easternmost of the Frisian islands off the coast of Holland, which are similar to our own barrier islands.
Built:: 1913, Denmark
Specs:: ( 331 x 48 ft ) 3220 gross tons, 36 crew
Sunk:: Sunday June 2, 1918
bombed by U-151 - no casualties
Depth:: 230 ft

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Thames

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1885, USA
Specs:: ( 55 ft )
Sunk:: autumn 1973; foundered - no casualties
Depth:: 100 ft

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Thelma Phoebe

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, yacht, USA
Built:: 1906, Consolidated Shipbuilding, Morris Heights NY USA as Galatea
Specs:: ( 140 x 18 ft ) 157 tons, 9 crew
Sunk:: Sunday April 29, 1923
grounded on Fisher's Island - 1 casualty

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Thomas Hebert

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat
Built:: 1975, Orange TX USA
Specs:: ( 89 x 27 ft ) 99 tons, 7 crew
Sunk:: Sunday March 7, 1993
cause unknown - two survivors
Depth:: 140 ft

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The "Three Sisters", as she is called, is an unidentified wooden-hulled vessel. She sits in 80 ft of water some 13 miles south of Atlantic Beach Inlet. She sits on a sandy bottom, spread out over a small area. Her boiler and a 4 bladed propeller are still visible. Wooden beams and planking spread out from the boilers aft towards the propeller. Occasionally some artifacts are found, mostly brass fittings. This is generally a decent wreck for lobsters and spearfishing. This wreck is in a main shipping channel, and large vessels make large wakes, so secure all gear.

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Thurmond

Type:: shipwreck, "whale-back" steamer, USA
Built:: 1890, AmShip Superior, Duluth MN USA, as Colgate Hoyt
Specs:: ( 276 x 36 ft ) 1253 displacement tons
Sunk:: Saturday December 25, 1909
ran aground in thick fog - 10 casualties
Depth:: 14 ft

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Tolten

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Chile ( originally Denmark )
Name:: Tolten is a city on the central coast of Chile.
Built:: 1938, Denmark, as Lotta
Specs:: ( 280 x 43 ft ) 1858 gross tons, 28 crew
Sunk:: Friday March 13, 1942
torpedoed by U-404 - 27 casualties
Depth:: 95 ft

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Townsend's Inlet

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Diving Myths

From way back when in 1996 ...

by Dr. Jolie Bookspan, author of Diving Physiology in Plain English

Myth 1 - The Dive Reflex Protects You

In the dive reflex, heart rate and limb blood flow decrease. Careful science ( that means we didn't accidentally step on the thermisters ) shows time and again that the dive reflex does not reduce the need for oxygen underwater as it does in marine mammals. Field studies ( where you're allowed to step on the thermisters ) indicate that the dive reflex does not extend breath-holding time. Occasional cases of human survival after very cold water near-drowning are not due to the dive reflex. Cold is the likely mechanism behind the reduced metabolism that permits survival.

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