Manasquan Dive Sites (3/11)
- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge
- Built:
- 1922, Baltimore MD USA
- Specs:
- ( 215 x 36 ft ) 1160 tons
- Sunk:
- Monday December 5, 1927
foundered in storm - no casualties - Depth:
- 80 ft
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- 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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- Type:
- shipwreck, Great Lakes ore carrier, USA
- Built:
- 1888, 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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- Type:
- shipwreck, dry-dock barge
- Depth:
- 110 ft
This anonymous big rectangular wooden dry-dock barge lies off Asbury Park, out near the edge of the Mud Hole. It is similar to the better-known Immaculata. The hulk of the wreck rises up as much as 10 feet, partially intact, while the upper sides have collapsed into the silty sand. Holes in the main wreckage allow penetration into the dark interior, which is surprisingly barren. A debris field of large rectangular ballast stones, wooden ribs, and rusted machinery extend from the western edge of the wreck, and to a lesser extent all around it. In exceptional late October fifty-foot visibility the view of this wreck from above was impressive, but overall this is not a very pretty site, and it is seldom dived. Good for lobsters, Sea Bass, scallops, and decompression.
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- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer
- Depth:
- 80 ft
A very small wreck, consisting of a primitive single-cylinder steam engine and a large, completely broken-down boiler. Odd pieces of pipe and machinery lie around, but no remains of a hull, although there appears to be some iron plating under the engine. Guessing from the technology, the construction would date to around 1860 +/- 10 years, and the sinking would have been sometime after that.
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Micropogonias undulatus
Profile by John McClain, Principal Fisheries Biologist
The croaker is a member of the Sciaenidae, or drum family, which includes the black drum and weakfish. Their name comes from the sound they can make by vibrating their swim bladders.
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