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Vizcaya

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, Spain
Name:: Vizcaya is a Basque province in northern Spain. The Basques are a fiercely independent seafaring people of unknown origin.
Built:: 1872, England, as Santander
Specs:: ( 287 x 38 ft ) 2458 gross tons, 103 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Saturday October 30, 1890
collision with schooner Cornelius Hargraves - 60 casualties
Depth:: 80 ft

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Volund

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, Norway
Built:: 1889, Norway
Specs:: ( 239 ft )
Sunk:: Sept 26, 1908; collision with liner Commonwealth
Depth:: 105 ft

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Warships

A number of warships are sunk in New Jersey and New York waters:

Warships

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Wayne

Type:: shipwreck, barge
Specs:: 436 tons
Sunk:: Wednesday May 25, 1932
Depth:: 45 ft

wooden

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Western World

Type:: shipwreck, sailing ship, England
Specs:: ( 287 x 38 ft ) 2458 gross tons, 300+ passengers & crew
Sunk:: Saturday October 22, 1853
ran aground in heavy fog - no casualties
Depth:: 25 ft

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4.5 Nautical Miles off Wildwood, 2.99 sq miles
Depth: 40-65 ft [download]

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William B. Diggs

Type:: shipwreck, barge
Built:: 1918
Specs:: 1041 tons
Sunk:: Monday September 3, 1934
foundered - no casualties
Depth:: 42 ft

The Diggs was engaged in a salvage operation at the time of her loss and actually settled on top of another shipwreck, of unknown origin. The green blinker buoy for which it is known was removed after the wooden wreck was demolished in the 1970s. Also known as the "Green Blinker Wreck".

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William R Farrell

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1900
Specs:: ( 61 ft )
Sunk:: 1979
Depth:: 55 ft

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Wily Fox

Type:: shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
Built:: 1966, Rockport Yacht & Supply Co. (RYSCO), Rockport TX USA
Specs:: ( 91 ft ) 175 gross tons
Sunk:: Thursday, May 11, 1989
foundered
Depth:: 150 ft

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Block Island Wind Farm

Type:: windmill towers
Built:: 2016, USA
Specs:: ( 600 ft tall )
Depth:: 0-85 ft

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Harbor Seal

Phoca vitulina

by Larry Sarner

Wild seals conjure up images of northern or even Arctic climates. But few people know that more than a hundred harbor seals call New Jersey home during the winter months, coming ashore into isolated estuaries and even upstream into a few rivers.

New Jersey is near the southern limits of the range for harbor seals on the East Coast. However, these seals are frequent visitors offshore in winter and even have been reported as far south as the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia and off the coast of North Carolina. The winter seal-sighting season runs from December through March. Seals generally leave the New Jersey coast by the second week in April, probably responding to rising air and water temperatures and the increase in human activity.

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