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Vincent Tibbetts AOG-33

Type:: artificial reef, T1-M-A2 tanker, gasoline
Built:: 1944 Bayonne NJ USA as USS Ochlockonee AOG-33
Specs:: ( 244 x 37 ft ) tonnage unknown after lengthening
Sponsor:: Cape May County Party & Charter Boat Association, PSE&G Habitat Restoration Fund, friends of Walt Hendee, Ann E Clark Foundation
Sunk:: Thursday Sept 5, 2002 - Deepwater Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°58.385' -74°11.429'
Depth:: 135 ft

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Vinik Huntress

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Specs:: ( 65 ft )
Sponsor:: Vinik Marine
Sunk:: Saturday June 9, 2020 - Sandy Hook Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°21.541' -73°56.006'
Depth:: 60 ft

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Wagner's Point

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Built:: 1941, Newburgh NY as Carrie T. Meseck
Specs:: ( 97 x 27 ft )
Sponsor:: Carbon Service Corp, GDF, Vincent Pessolano family
Sunk:: Thursday September 29, 1994 - Garden State North Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°37.697' -74°01.113'
Depth:: 80 ft

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Waldorf

Type:: artificial reef, barge, crane
Specs:: ( 110 ft )
Sponsor:: Caldwell's Diving Company
Sunk:: Friday December 3 1999 - Little Egg Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°28.780' -74°11.084'

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Wedding barge

Type:: artificial reef, barge
Specs:: ( 109 x 34 ft )
Sponsor:: Friends of Craig and Pat Thoman
Sunk:: Tuesday January 15 2002 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°07.370' -73°56.765'

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Weeks barge

Type:: artificial reef, barge
Specs:: ( 106 x 36 ft )
Sponsor:: Penn Reels
Sunk:: Wednesday June 21, 1995 - Garden State North Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°37.628' -74°01.643'
Depth:: 80 ft

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Winthrop

Type:: artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:: 1948, Bath Iron Works, Maine, USA
Specs:: ( 117 x 24 ft ) 195 gross tons
Sponsor:: Eirek's Dock, Fish America Foundation
Sunk:: Wednesday July 12, 1989 - Cape May Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°50.825' -74°43.312'
Depth:: 60 ft

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Wyoming

Type:: artificial reef, clam dredge, USA
Built:: 1936, Humphreys Railways, Weems VA, as Aspen
Specs:: ( 100 x 18 ft )
Sponsor:: Wyoming Boat Corp, Cape May County Party & Charter Boat Association
Sunk:: Saturday Dec 7, 1991 - Cape May Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°52.976' -74°40.620'

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YOGN-8

Type:: artificial reef, tanker
Specs:: ( 165 x 35 ft )
Sponsor:: Friends of John Dobilas & the McGraw Hill Foundation
Sunk:: Tuesday August 20, 1996 - Garden State North Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°37.564' -74°01.341'
Depth:: 80 ft

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Dive Gear References

The Essentials of Deeper Sport Diving
John Lippman
AquaQuest, 1992
320 pages, illustrated, b&w

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US Navy Dive Manual
1999, updated 2001

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