Manasquan Dive Sites (6/11) ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Lillian

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, USA
Built:: 1920, Wilmington DE USA, as Maddequet
Specs:: ( 327 x 46 ft ) 3482 gross tons, 32 crew
Sunk:: Sunday February 26, 1939
collision with freighter Wiegand ( 6568 tons) - no casualties
Depth:: 150 ft

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Lizzie H. Brayton

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1891, Bath ME USA
Specs:: ( 201 ft ) 979 tons, 9 crew
Sunk:: Sunday March 27, 1914
ran aground in storm - no casualties
Depth:: 15 ft

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Logwood

Type:: shipwreck, sailing ship
Built:: 1906, Rockland, Maine, USA, as John D. Colwell
Specs:: ( 192 x 39 ft ) 1,042 gross tons, 14 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Wednesday May 12, 1920
collision with tanker Laramie, no casualties
Depth:: 95 ft

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Malta

Type:: iron-hulled steamer, converted to sail
Built:: 1852
Specs:: ( 244 x 40 ft ) 1600 displacement tons, 24 crew
Sunk:: Saturday November 24, 1885
ran aground in bad weather - 1 casualty
Depth:: 20 ft

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Manasquan River Inlet

Manasquan Inlet — Low tide, winter.
Point Pleasant on the left /south
Manasquan on the right / north

Type:: tidal river inlet with stone jetties or bulkheads on both sides
Depth:: 30 ft

This inlet has a long slightly L-shaped jetty on the north side and a longer straight jetty on the south side. Both jetties are made of large stones and concrete, and the ends are built out of man-made concrete "jacks", shaped like an H with a 90-degree twist in the middle.

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August 17, 2022

Manasquan Inlet Filling In

August 17, 2022

N.J. Shore inlet to be surveyed after large sandbar forms

By Nicolas Fernandes
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Aug. 17, 2022

Sand piling up in Manasquan Inlet

*Linda Anne*, a 38-foot sportfishing boat based in Manasquan, heads outbound from Manasquan Inlet on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Manasquan. Sand has piled up along the south jetty, which some say has created hazardous navigational conditions as well as a new beach inside the inlet.
Andrew Mills | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

The Army Corps of Engineers will visit the Manasquan Inlet next week to survey a large sandbar that has formed in the waterway, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-4th Dist., said Wednesday.

Sands at the inlet have shifted before, but the low-tide sandbar is larger than anything seen there before, the congressman said.

"We are gravely concerned that it will pose a serious hazard to navigation," Smith said.

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Manasquan Inlet Artificial Reef

2 miles off Manasquan Inlet
Depth: 67-74 ft

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Manasquan River

The Manasquan River is overall not as nice a place to dive as the Shark River. The currents are stronger, the water never seems as clean, and the bottom is silty wherever it is not covered with mussels. The inlet jetties can be downright dangerous, and the boat traffic in the channel there is often very heavy. Off the north jetty is the so-called "Manasquan Wreck", but this is a long swim from shore and probably best approached with a boat.

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