New Jersey Artificial Reef Sites (7/19)

New Jersey Artificial Reefs

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The Fisherman reef
Type:
artificial reef, tanker barge
Specs:
( 242 x 42 ft )
Sponsor:
Spentonbush Red Star Company, Sportfish Fund
Sunk:
Thursday August 7, 1997 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°07.930' -73°55.942'
Depth:
70 ft




Type:
sport boat
Specs:
( 35 ft )
Sponsor:
Elmer Dowd; Sportfish Fund
Sunk:
Saturday Oct 23, 1993 - Cape May Artificial Reef
GPS:
38°51.700' -74°42.900'
Depth:
70 ft

Another mystery





Good Times reef
Making history - the Good Times was the first vessel sunk by the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife's (then) new Artificial Reef Program.
Type:
artificial reef, charter boat
Specs:
( 52 x 14 ft )
Sunk:
Wednesday August 15, 1984 - Garden State North Artificial Reef
GPS:
gone (LORAN 26873.0 43192.5 = 39.61944° -74.01639° (1989)
Depth:
80 ft

New Jersey Artificial Reef Sites

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Shipwreck U.S.S. Ohio
Type:
shipwreck, 74 gun ship-of-the-line, U.S. Navy
Name:
that place next to Indiana
Built:
1820, New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn NY USA
Specs:
( 208 x 54 ft ) 2757 gross tons
Sunk:
April 1884
set adrift and grounded by storm while being dismantled, later deliberately burned
Depth:
20 ft