Manasquan Dive Sites (6/11)
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- 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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- 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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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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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
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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Depth: 67-74 ft
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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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- 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
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This site on the Shark River Artificial Reef consists of two long ridges of seven huge rock piles each, with one long valley east-west between them. Between piles, there are smaller valleys. Each ridge contains approximately two million tons ( or one million cubic yards ) of granite, blasted and dredged from the bottom of New York harbor between September 2002 and September 2003. Peak depths range from 85 to 105 ft, bottom depth is 130 ft. In addition, 15 Redbird subway cars were deposited on or near one of the piles. A single similar rockpile is located in shallower water on the Axel Carlson Reef.
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