Manasquan Dive Sites (3/10)

Manasquan Chart

  1. Barge #10
  2. 120 Wreck
  3. 3 Sisters
  4. Ambrose Buoy
  5. A Street - Shark River
  6. Across
  7. Adele
  8. Ajace
  9. Alex Mac
  10. Allenhurst Jetty
  11. Anastasia
  12. Antioch
  13. Arnoff
  14. Arundo
  15. Asfalto
  16. Aurora
  17. Ayuruoca
  18. BA Wreck
  19. Shark River - Back Bay
  20. Balaena
  21. Bald Eagle
  22. Barnegat Inlet
  23. BD1738
  24. USS Benson
  25. Beth Dee Bob
  26. Blue Boy
  27. Bonanza
  28. Brick barge
  29. Bronx Queen
  30. Brunette
  31. Cecilia M Dunlap
  32. Cornelius Grinnell
  33. Catherine Jackson
  34. Chauncy Jerome
  35. Caddo
  36. Cadet
  37. Capt Smitty
  38. Catamount
  39. Charlemagne Tower
  40. Chaparra
  41. Chesapeake
  42. Choapa
  43. clam boat
  44. Continent
  45. crane barge
  46. Creole
  47. Daghestan
  48. Delaware
  49. drydock
  50. Dryland
  51. dump
  52. Duncan
  53. Edmund Phinney
  54. Elberon Rocks
  55. Emerald / USS Hibiscus
  56. Eureka
  57. Francis A Perkins
  58. William R Farrell
  59. FF Clain
  60. Finance
  61. Fort Victoria
  62. Gassoon
  63. German
  64. Lady Gertrude
  65. GL78
  66. Glen II
  67. Glory Wreck
  68. I.P. Goulandris
  69. Granite Wreck
  70. Great Isaac
  71. Gulftrade (stern)
  72. Gulftrade (bow)
  73. Gypsy
  74. Horseshoe Cove
  75. Alexander Hamilton
  76. Hankins (Big)
  77. Hankins (Offshore)
  78. Hankins 3
  79. Happy Days
  80. Cornelius Hargraves
  81. Harry Rush
  82. Harvey's Schooner
  83. Thomas Hebert
  84. Ida K
  85. Immaculata
  86. Inshore barge/tug
  87. Irene/Truro
  88. Irma C
  89. John Minturn
  90. Jack I
  91. Joan La Rie III
  92. Klondike Rocks
  93. Lizzie H. Brayton
  94. Lana Carol
  95. Larsen
  96. Lavallette Wreck
  97. Leon Walter
  98. Lillian
  99. Lizzie D
  100. Long Branch locomotives
  101. Logwood
  102. H.W. Long
  103. Macedonia
  104. Mahogany
  105. Malta
  106. Manasquan Inlet
  107. Marion
  108. Maurice Tracy
  109. Mediator
  110. Meta
  111. Middle Barge
  112. Mistletoe
  113. R.C. Mohawk
  114. Mohawk
  115. Manasquan Wreck
  116. Nautilus
  117. Navesink River
  118. Northeast Sailor
  119. New Reef
  120. New Deal
  121. New Era
  122. NW Barges
  123. Olsen
  124. HMS Pentland Firth
  125. Park City
  126. Peerless
  127. Persephone
  128. Long Branch Pier Rubble
  129. Pinta
  130. Pliny
  131. Plymouth
  132. Pocopson
  133. Remedios Pascual
  134. Ruth Shaw
  135. Ramos
  136. Ranger
  137. Reliable
  138. Relief Lightship
  139. Rickseckers
  140. Ridge Schooner
  141. Riggy
  142. Rjukan
  143. Rockaway Belle
  144. Roy's barge
  145. RP Resor
  146. Manasquan River Railroad Bridge
  147. Rudder Wreck - Pocono
  148. Rump
  149. Rusland / Adonis
  150. Scotland Buoy
  151. San Saba
  152. Sandy Hook Pilot Boat
  153. SC-60
  154. Sea Girt Inlet
  155. Sea Girt Wreck
  156. Sea Hag
  157. Seaside Crane Barge
  158. Shark River Inlet
  159. Shrewsbury Rocks
  160. Simala
  161. Spring Lake Sailor
  162. Steel Wreck
  163. Stolt Dagali
  164. Sumner
  165. Southwest Mohawk
  166. Sylvanus
  167. Tampa III
  168. Thurmond
  169. Tolten
  170. Train Wheel
  171. Troop Carrier
  172. USS Turner
  173. AWOIS 8087
  174. AWOIS 8097
  175. u11
  176. AWOIS 7509
  177. AWOIS 7932
  178. AWOIS 9768
  179. AWOIS 12966/11422
  180. AWOIS 1609
  181. AWOIS 8084
  182. AWOIS 7940
  183. AWOIS 7938
  184. AWOIS 8076
  185. AWOIS 4600
  186. AWOIS 8075
  187. Valerie E
  188. Vega
  189. Vivian
  190. Vizcaya
  191. Warrior
  192. Western World
  193. Edward W Winslow
  194. Edward W Winslow
  195. Yankee (G+D)
  196. Yellow Flag
  197. ZPG-3W
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Type:
shipwreck, steamer, USA
Built:
1867, Pusey & Jones, Wilmington DE USA
Specs:
274 tons (?), 9 crew
Sunk:
Tuesday February 1, 1870
collision with steamer Santiago de Cuba ( 1627 tons) - 2 casualties
Depth:
75 ft



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.


Shipwreck 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

Type:
shipwreck, trawler

This site is really just a jumble of machinery. Anything resembling a ship has long since disappeared. Various clues around the site would seem to indicate a wooden-hulled trawler, probably built before the war ( WWII ) and sunk sometime after.


Shipwreck SS Delaware
Type:
shipwreck, steamer, USA, Clyde Lines ( see Mohawk )
Built:
1880, Hillman Ship & Engine Building, Philadelphia PA USA
Specs:
( 250 x 37 ft ) 1646 gross tons, 66 passengers & crew
Sunk:
Saturday July 9, 1898
fire below decks, burned to waterline - no casualties
Depth:
75 ft

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.


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.




Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Size
to 38"

This is an introduced species in New Jersey, although it occurs in regions all around. Largemouth bass at Dutch Springs are as tame as dogs, and will follow you around hoping for handouts, as long as you don't spook them. If you don't happen to have anything to feed them, a good way to keep their interest is to flip over rocks on the bottom, exposing tasty little crayfish and other treats that the bass will go right after.