Manasquan Dive Sites (2/11)

Manasquan

  1. #10
  2. 12-Mile Dump
  3. 120 Wreck
  4. 3 Sisters
  5. 44025
  6. 44065
  7. 44091
  8. A
  9. A St
  10. Acid Dump
  11. Across
  12. Adele
  13. Alex Mac
  14. Allenhurst
  15. Anastasia
  16. Antioch
  17. Arnoff
  18. Arundo
  19. Asfalto
  20. Aurora
  21. Axel Carlson
  22. Ayuruoca
  23. BA Wreck
  24. Balaena
  25. Bald Eagle
  26. Barnegat
  27. Barnegat Bay
  28. Barnegat Inlet
  29. Bay
  30. BD1738
  31. Benson
  32. Beth Dee Bob
  33. Blue Boy
  34. Bonanza
  35. Brayton
  36. Brick barge
  37. Brunette
  38. Burning Dump
  39. Caddo
  40. Cadet
  41. Capt Smitty
  42. Catamount
  43. Catherine Jackson
  44. Chaparra
  45. Charlemagne Tower
  46. Chauncy Jerome
  47. Chesapeake
  48. Choapa
  49. clam boat
  50. CM Dunlap
  51. Continent
  52. Cornelius Grinnell
  53. Cove
  54. crane barge
  55. Creole
  56. Daghestan
  57. Delaware
  58. drydock
  59. Dryland
  60. dump
  61. Duncan
  62. Elberon Rocks
  63. Emerald
  64. Eureka
  65. Farrel
  66. FF Clain
  67. Finance
  68. Firth
  69. Fort Victoria
  70. Gassoon
  71. German
  72. Gertrude
  73. GL78
  74. Glen II
  75. Glory
  76. Goulandris
  77. Granite
  78. Great Isaac
  79. GSN
  80. Gulftrade (bow)
  81. Gulftrade (stern)
  82. Gypsy
  83. Hamilton
  84. Hankins (Big)
  85. Hankins (Offshore)
  86. Hankins 3
  87. Hargraves
  88. Harry Rush
  89. HARS
  90. Harvey's
  91. Hebert
  92. Ida K
  93. Immaculata
  94. Irene/Truro
  95. Irma C
  96. Jack I
  97. Joan La Rie III
  98. Klondike Rocks
  99. Lana Carol
  100. Larsen
  101. Lavallette
  102. Leon Walter
  103. Lillian
  104. Lizzie D
  105. locomotives
  106. Logwood
  107. Long
  108. Macedonia
  109. Mahogany
  110. Malta
  111. Manasquan
  112. Manasquan Inlet
  113. Marion
  114. Maurice Tracy
  115. Mediator
  116. Meta
  117. Middle
  118. Minturn
  119. Mohawk
  120. Mohawk
  121. Msqn Wreck
  122. Mud Dump
  123. Mud Hole
  124. Mud Hole
  125. Nautilus
  126. Navesink River
  127. NE Sailor
  128. New Deal
  129. New Era
  130. NW Barges
  131. Offshore Tug
  132. Olsen
  133. Park City
  134. Peerless
  135. Perkins
  136. Persephone
  137. Phinney
  138. Pier Rubble
  139. Pinta
  140. Pliny
  141. Plymouth
  142. Pocopson
  143. Ramos
  144. Ranger
  145. Raritan Bay
  146. Reliable
  147. Relief
  148. Remedios Pascual
  149. Rickseckers
  150. Ridge
  151. Riggy
  152. Rjukan
  153. Rockaway Belle
  154. Roy's
  155. RP Resor
  156. RR Bridge
  157. Rudder (Pocono)
  158. Rump
  159. Rusland / Adonis
  160. Ruth Shaw
  161. S
  162. San Saba
  163. Sandy Hook
  164. Sandy Hook
  165. SC-60
  166. Sea Girt
  167. Sea Girt Inlet
  168. Sea Girt Wreck
  169. Sea Hag
  170. Seaside Crane
  171. Shark River
  172. Shark River Inlet
  173. Shipping Lanes
  174. Shipping Lanes
  175. Shipping Lanes
  176. Shrewsbury Rocks
  177. Simala
  178. SL Sailor
  179. Steel
  180. Stolt Dagali
  181. Sumner
  182. SW Mohawk
  183. Sylvanus
  184. Tampa III
  185. Thurmond
  186. Tolten
  187. Train Wheel
  188. Troop
  189. Turner
  190. u1
  191. u10
  192. u12
  193. u13
  194. u14
  195. u2
  196. u3
  197. u4
  198. u5
  199. u6
  200. u7
  201. u8
  202. u9
  203. Vega
  204. Vivian
  205. Vizcaya
  206. Western World
  207. Winslow
  208. Winslow
  209. Yankee (G+D)
  210. Yellow Flag
  211. ZPG-3W
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Shipwreck Ayuruoca
Type:
shipwreck, freighter, Brazil
Built:
1930, Germany, as Roland
Specs:
( 468 x 58 ft ) 6872 gross tons, 67 crew
Sunk:
Wednesday June 10, 1945 ( well after cessation of hostilities )
collision with freighter General Fleischer - 1 casualty
Depth:
170 ft, starts at 110 ft

Type:
sailing ship
Name:
Balaena is an old term for whale, derived from Latin. The name was found inscribed on the ship's bell.
Depth:
170 ft
Shipwreck Balaena

shipwreck, wooden hull full of coal

A wood sailing ship in the Mud Hole at a depth of 170 feet. She was a collier or ore carrier. She is still largely intact, coal in what's left of her holds. Divers tell tales of finding lots of deadeyes, but I haven't seen or heard of one coming from this wreck in many years. Her bell was found to identify her name, but not much else has been discovered about her history. A dive for the very experienced diver. Limited visibility, deep and dark. For those with the technical dive skill, it is a very nice dive.




Beach Jetties

Dozens of jetties up and down the coast have been cut-though at the base like this one, making them inaccessible to fishermen, but not divers !


Type:
shipwreck, probably a barge
Depth:
120 ft

A sailing ship or small steamship in 120 feet of water. Sandy bottom, but given to silty conditions. Like the Deep Dry Dock, she has been dragged apart, mowed down, and pulled apart. She has some nice bronze parts strewn about.


Shipwreck Beth Dee Bob
Type:
shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
Built:
1990, Bock Marine - Beaufort NC USA
Specs:
( 84 ft ) 96 tons, 4 crew
Sunk:
Wednesday January 6, 1999
foundered in rough seas - no survivors
Depth:
120 ft

Type:
shipwreck, dry-dock barge
Depth:

I don't know the reason for this offshore barge's name, other than it might well be the real one. Nevertheless, this wood barge, sometimes called a drydock lies in 120+ of water and is usually a very good lobster dive, albeit a deeper one. Bottom visibility is often cloudy to poor. It's not the best bottom conditions here, but a careful and advanced certified diver can bring home a lot of lobsters for dinner with a dive here. This spot isn't frequently dived.


Shipwreck Bluff's Wreck
Type:
shipwreck, steamer ( assuming it is the Creole ) USA
Built:
1862, Mystic CN, USA
Specs:
( 194 x 34 ft ) 1229 tons
Sunk:
March 17, 1868, ran aground in fog - no casualties
Depth:
20 ft

Type:
shipwreck, barge
Depth:
120 ft

This wreck got its name from the first few divers to get there, who struck it rich in lobsters in its wooden ribs and decking. The wreckage is very well spread out in several lines or walls, with decking off to one side. Near the bow, an overturned piece of decking is home to ling and blackfish. Off to the side lie the winch and small bits of machinery.


Manasquan Dive Sites

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M60 tanks reef
M60 tanks undergo a thorough cleaning before use as reefs

The Artificial Reef Program used four types of obsolete Army armored vehicles as artificial reef materials off the New Jersey coast. These were cleaned at local military bases, loaded onto barges for transport, and pushed off at their final destination. Once the Army had disposed of its excess inventory, the program ceased, around 1999. The Artificial Reef Program has sunk almost 400 tanks altogether, far too many to list them here in this website.

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