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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 Artificial Reef

3.8 nm offshore, 0.69 sq miles
Depth: 50-65 ft [download]

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Train Wheel Wreck

Type:: shipwreck, schooner
Depth:: 120 ft

The Train Wheel Wreck is another unidentified wooden schooner. She is located in 120 feet of water only a few miles from the G&D Wreck. According to Jimmy Fazzolare divers will find a pile of train wheels and wooden debris. The Train Wheels must have been cargo. In the center of the wreck is a depression where divers can usually find big lobsters.

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Triangle Wrecks

Shipwreck Finance — A salvage vessel moored to the superstructure of the sunken *Finance*.

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, schooner barge, barge (?)
Depth:: 65 ft

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Troop Carrier

Specs:: Landing Craft?
Sunk:: during World War II ?
Depth:: 20 ft

This wreck is described only as a "Troop Carrier" from World War II. Given its location, I would guess that what is meant by this is most likely a landing craft; probably lost in an accident during an amphibious training exercise by the Army.

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Twelve-Mile Artificial Reef

12-Mile Artificial Reef

Dauntless
Jana Marie
Relentless

12.0 nautical miles from Moriches and Shinnecock Inlets, 1.33 sq miles
Depth: 123 - 143 ft

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U-550

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Built:: 1942, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Sunk:: Saturday April 16, 1944
by depth charges and gunfire from destroyer escorts USS Gandy, USS Joyce and USS Peterson after torpedoing tanker Pan Pennsylvania - 44 casualties.
Depth:: 300 ft

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U-853

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Built:: 1943, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Sunk:: Saturday May 6, 1945
sunk by destroyer escort USS Atherton - no survivors
Depth:: 110-130 ft

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Gauges & Computers

2016 Update

Computers and electronics change so fast it is hard to keep up with it. The general recommendations below should hold up pretty well even as the technology races forward.

The dive computer should be considered standard equipment. Diving with a computer will give you more bottom time and more safety margin than crude estimating with dive tables. If you are buying your first set of gear, get a computer rather than analog gauges, and you will not regret it. There is a great deal of variation in the design and operation of dive computers. Among the choices you can make are:

air-integrated or not
conservative vs. liberal algorithms
violation lock-out mode
Nitrox-ready or not
wrist, console or hose mounted
dive logging & PC interface
backlighting for night diving
auto-on vs. manual-on

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