New Jersey Dive Sites (17/31) ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Macedonia

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, Germany
( at time of loss chartered to Ward Lines, see Mohawk )
Name:: Macedonia is a region in the southern Balkans, adjoining Greece, and formerly part of Yugoslavia.
Built:: 1894, England
Specs:: ( 280 x 41 ft ) 2268 gross tons, 19 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Tuesday June 13, 1899
collision with liner Hamilton ( 3127 tons) - 1 casualty
GPS:: 40°21.418' -73°56.153' (AWOIS 1991)
Depth:: 60 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

Ellie B

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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Manasquan Inlet Artificial Reef

Manasquan Artificial Reef

Brunette
Manasquan Inlet Buoy
C.ANN
Cadet
Carter's Creek
Delaware
Manasquan Inlet
Mt Sinai
Olsen
Ranger
Shark River Inlet
Susan Rose

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

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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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Manasquan Wreck - Amity

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

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Manhattan

Type:: shipwreck, sailing ships
Sunk:: Sunday April 16, 1854
foundered in storm
Depth:: 35 ft

The packet ship Manhattan sank with eight of her nine crew. In the same storm, the 200 ft schooner Powhattan was also lost nearby, with over 350 immigrants on board and no survivors. Neither wreck has been positively identified, although there are several candidates, including one old wooden hull buried up to the gunwales in the sand.

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Marion

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

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Maurice Tracy

Type:: shipwreck, collier, USA
Built:: 1916, Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ashtabula OH USA, as Nordstrand, later Sekstant
Specs:: ( 253 x 43 ft ) 2468 gross tons
Sunk:: Saturday June 17, 1944
collision with freighter Jesse Billingsley - no casualties
Depth:: 70 ft

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