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car float

Type:: shipwreck, barge
Specs:: ( 270 x 25 ft )
Depth:: 60 ft

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Carolina

Type:: shipwreck, liner, USA
Built:: 1896, Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News VA USA, as La Grande Duchesse
Specs:: ( 380 x 47 ft ) 5017 gross tons, 330 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Sunday June 2, 1918
shelled by U-151 - 13 casualties
Depth:: 250 ft

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Cassandra

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, USA
Built:: 1864, Mystic CT USA
Specs:: ( 207 x 35 ft ) 1284 gross tons
Sunk:: Tuesday February 5, 1867
ran aground - no casualties

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Catherine Jackson

Specs:: 370 passengers, must have been pretty big
Sunk:: around 1870, no casualties

I know of no charted location known as the Catherine Jackson, although it is reputed to have sunk in the area shown.

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Cayru

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Brazil
Built:: 1919, American International Shipbuilding, Hog Island PA USA, as Scanmail
Specs:: ( 390 x 54 ft ) 5152 gross tons, 83 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Sunday March 8, 1942
torpedoed by U-94 - 53 casualties
Depth:: 125-140 ft

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Cecilia M. Dunlap

Type:: shipwreck, schooner barge ( originally a bark )
Built:: 1876 as Parknook
Specs:: ( 199 x 32 ft ) 793 tons
Sunk:: Saturday September 12, 1931
foundered
GPS:: 40°25.374' -73°52.828' (AWOIS 2013)
Depth:: 60 ft

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Celtic / Cape Race

Type:: Celtic - shipwreck, canal tugboat, USA
Cape Race - shipwreck, barge, Oyster Bay NY USA
Built:: Celtic - 1958, Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay NY USA as Russell 10
Specs:: Celtic - ( 85 ft ) 6 crew
Cape Race - ( 150 ft )
Sunk:: Saturday November 17, 1984
barge foundered, pulling tug down with it - no survivors
Depth:: 60 ft

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Champion

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, USA
Built:: 1859, Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington DE USA
Specs:: ( 234 x 31 ft ) 1419 gross tons, 55 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Friday November 7, 1879
collision with sailing ship Lady Octavia - 28 casualties
Depth:: 105 ft

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Chaparra

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Cuba
Name:: a seaport in northeastern Cuba
also Spanish for "cowboy" or slang for "shorty"
Built:: 1906, Scotland, as Tinhow
Specs:: ( 249 x 38 ft ) 1510 gross tons, 29 crew
Sunk:: Sunday October 27, 1918
struck mine laid by U-117 - 6 casualties
Depth:: 80 ft

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Charlemagne Tower

Type:: shipwreck, Great Lakes ore carrier, USA
Built:: 1888, Quayle & Sons, Cleveland OH USA
Specs:: ( 255 x 40 ft ) 1825 gross tons, 19 crew
Sunk:: Friday March 6, 1914
foundered in rough seas - no casualties
Depth:: 75 ft

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Decompression Theory

An Explanation of Professor A.A. Buhlmann's ZH-L16 Algorithm

by Paul Chapman

Note to new divers and potential new divers:

This information is presented for general interest. Don't be scared off by what you see here - you don't need to learn any of this to become a safe and competent scuba diver. You will however need to understand dive planning.

The following is a summary of the decompression algorithm described by Dr A.A. Buhlmann in the fourth edition of his book Tauchmedizin ( diving medicine ) published in 1995 ( only in German. ) the book contains a considerable amount of other information and is published by Springer-Verlag ISBN 3-540-58970-8. Rumor has it that at the time of writing ( November 1999 ) an English translation is being prepared for publishing, so hopefully, in due course, this document will become redundant.

The algorithm is simply a "recipe" for modeling the behavior of inert gases, which diffuse in and out of our body tissues when breathed under varying pressures. The intention is that if the recipe models the actual processes in our bodies accurately enough, it can be used to plan dives ( and other pressure exposures ) with a view to avoiding decompression sickness.

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