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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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- 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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- Type:
- shipwreck, tugboat, schooner barge, barge (?)
- Depth:
- 65 ft
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- 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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12-Mile Artificial Reef
12.0 nautical miles from Moriches and Shinnecock Inlets, 1.33 sq miles
Depth: 123 - 143 ft
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- 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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Homarus americanus
Size: to 36" and 45 lbs. (record)
Habitat: subtidal to the edge of the continental shelf, in any sheltered spot
Notes:
Lobsters differ from shrimps in having three pairs of clawed legs, the first with very large claws. Southern "Spiny Lobsters" are only distantly related; freshwater crayfish are closer. Lobsters, or "Bugs", are mainly nocturnal, and feed primarily on living or freshly killed food rather than scavenging on carrion, as was once thought. Although they are predominantly solitary creatures, lobsters do have a sort of social life amongst themselves. Males are more aggressive than females and will form pecking orders among individuals in an area. Female lobsters apparently seek the protection of a male when molting, then mate afterward. Lobsters shed their shells once or twice a year, depending mainly on the temperature.
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