New Jersey Dive Sites (2/31)
- Type:
- shipwreck, barge / schooner barge
- Specs:
- 1313 tons
- Sunk:
- Thursday January 26, 1933
four casualties - Depth:
- 75 ft
More: Anastasia ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, liner, Italy
- Name:
- A 16th century Genoese Admiral. This name had been previously carried by a number of Italian warships ( see page bottom )
- Built:
- 1951, Italy
- Specs:
- ( 700 x 90 ft ) 29083 displacement tons, 1706 passengers & crew
- Sunk:
- Thursday July 26, 1956
collision with freighter Stockholm ( 12000 tons) - 46 casualties - GPS:
- 40°29.405' -69°52.028' (AWOIS)
- Depth:
- 240 ft ( 190 ft minimum )
More: Andrea Doria ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, sailing ship, USA
- Built:
- 1876
- Specs:
- ( 180 ft ) 986 tons, 10 crew
- Sunk:
- Friday March 27, 1914
ran aground - no casualties - Depth:
- 20 ft
Probably sanded-in by beach restoration work
More: Antioch ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge
- Specs:
- ( 200 ft est.)
- Sunk:
- late 1800s ?
- Depth:
- 80 ft
More: Arnoff ...
Note the locomotives on deck, foreward of the aft mast.
- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, Netherlands
- Built:
- 1930, New Castle England, as Petersfield
- Specs:
- ( 412 x 55 ft ) 5163 gross tons, 43 crew
- Sunk:
- Tuesday April 28, 1942
torpedoed by U-136 - 6 casualties - Depth:
- 140 ft max; 110 ft min; 125 ft typical
More: Arundo ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge
- Specs:
- ( 330 x 40 ft )
- Sunk:
- March 12, 1932
- Depth:
- 95 ft
Capt. Mick Trzaska of the dive boat CRT II also calls this the "Bomb Wreck", since it once produced a live aircraft-type explosive. * A diver had sent it up with a lift bag thinking it was a champagne bottle! How it got there is anyone's guess.
* Probably a World War II hedgehog.
More: Asfalto ...
Squilla empusa is a species of mantis shrimp found in areas of the western Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico to Cape Cod, from the intertidal zone down to about 500 ft. It excavates and occupies a deep U-shaped burrow in soft sediment, from which it emerges, mainly at night, to feed on fish and invertebrate prey. They grow to a length of 12", although I have only ever seen small ones in the bellies of striped bass.
More: Mantis Shrimp ...