Long Island West Dive Sites (8/10)
- 12-Mile
- 12-Mile Dump
- 16-Fathom
- 3 Sisters
- 3/4 Tug
- 44025
- 44065
- 44069
- 59-Pounder
- Acara
- Acid Dump
- Across
- Arnoff
- Arundo
- Asfalto
- Atlantic
- Ayuruoca
- BA Wreck
- Balaena
- Bald Eagle
- Benson
- Burnside
- Choapa
- coal (Lido)
- Coastwise
- Dodger
- Dragger
- Drumelzier
- drydock
- Duke/Stone
- dump
- East Rockaway Inlet
- Eureka
- Fire Island
- Fire Island Inlet
- Gate City
- Gluckauf
- Goulandris
- Gypsy
- Happy Days
- Harvey's
- Hempstead
- Hylton Castle
- Iberia
- Immaculata
- Irma C
- Jones Inlet
- Jones Tug
- Kenosha
- Kismet Reef
- Larsen
- Linda
- Lizzie D
- Margaret
- McAllister
- Mohawk
- Moriches
- Moriches Inlet
- Mud Hole
- Mud Hole
- Old Yankee
- Oregon
- Pipe
- Ponquogue
- Reggie
- Roda
- Ruth Shaw
- San Diego
- Sea Wolf
- Shinnecock
- Shinnecock Inlet
- Shipping Lanes
- Shipping Lanes
- Steel
- Tarantula
- Train Wheel
- Valerie E
- Wolcott
- Yankee (G+D)
- Yellowbar Reef
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- Type:
- shipwreck, lightship, USCG
- Name:
- Named for its job - as the "relief ship" for the other regular lightships along the eastern seaboard.
- Built:
- 1904, Camden NJ USA
- Specs:
- ( 129 x 28 ft ) 631 gross tons, 9 crew
- Sunk:
- Friday June 24, 1960
collision with freighter Green Bay - no casualties - GPS:
- 40°27.144' -73°49.070' (AWOIS 2003)
- Depth:
- 105 ft, main deck at 90
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- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer
- Depth:
- 66 ft
This is the remains of an unidentified vessel which we located in August of 1986. She appears to be an old paddlewheel steamship, but this is only speculation and has yet to be confirmed. The only artifact I've found on this little wreck was a perfume bottle with the name "Rickseckers Perfume" on it, hence the name, Rickseckers.
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- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner, USA
- Built:
- 1886, Rockland ME USA
- Specs:
- ( 225 x 37 ft ) 1556 tons
- Sunk:
- February 8, 1899; unknown
- Depth:
- 23 ft
aka "Derrick Barge"
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Rockaway Artificial Reef
Depth: 32 - 40 ft
1.6 nautical miles south of Rockaway Beach
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- Type:
- shipwreck, pilot boat, converted yacht, USA
- Built:
- 1902, Elizabeth NJ USA, as Anstice, later Privateer
- Specs:
- ( 168 x 24 ft ) 361 gross tons, 26 crew & harbor pilots
- Sunk:
- Thursday April 27, 1939
collision with tanker Oslofjord ( 16500 tons) - no casualties - GPS:
- 40°27.556' -73°49.490' (AWOIS 1986)
- Depth:
- 100 ft
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A lightship is a small vessel with minimal engine power and a stout stable hull, designed to act as an anchored long-term floating lighthouse outside of a harbor. They were generally painted in bright red or orange anti-collision colors. Not that it helped much.
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