Manasquan Dive Sites (6/10)

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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Freighter Lillian
Type:
shipwreck, freighter, USA
Built:
1920, Bethlehem Wilmington, 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

Shipwreck 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

Logwood
Launching of the John D. Colwell
Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship
Built:
1906, Cobb, Butler & Co, 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


Shipwreck Malta
As Queen of the South, with a steam engine
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

Manasquan Inlet

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.


Manasquan Artificial Reef

2 miles off Manasquan Inlet, 0.99 sq miles
Depth: 67-74 ft [download]


Manasquan River
Aerial shot of the entire Manasquan River estuary, looking southeast. The Railroad Bridge dive site is at the upper-right.

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.


Shipwreck Manasquan Wreck
A Black Ball packet ship ( Orpheus ) leaving New York, 1835. Note the Black Ball insignia on the fore-topsail.
Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship, USA
Built:
1816, New York NY, USA
Specs:
382 tons
Sunk:
Saturday April 24, 1824
ran aground in a fog - no casualties
Depth:
30 ft

Type:
shipwreck, iron-hulled schooner barge ( formerly a Scottish/Italian bark )
Built:
1868, Dundee, Scotland
Specs:
693 tons
Sunk:
Saturday October 29, 1938
Depth:
60 ft


Ocean Wreck Divers I reef
Type:
artificial reef, MLB-44 patrol boats ( 2 ), US Coast Guard
Built:
1963, Curtis Bay MD USA
Specs:
( 44 x 12 ft ) 20 tons
Sponsor:
Ocean Wreck Divers (USCG 44333)
VHFC - Village Harbor Fishing Club, GDF (USCG 44322)
Depth:
OWD - 60 ft
VHFC - 80 ft
Sunk:
OWD - Tuesday July 11, 1995
VHFC - Tuesday May 16, 1995 - Garden State South Artificial Reef
GPS - OWD:
39°33.426' -74°05.973'
GPS - VHFC:
39°33.496' -74°05.991'