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Salem

Type:: shipwreck, schooner barge
Built:: 1900
Specs:: 703 tons, 3 crew
Sunk:: Sunday April 3, 1932
- no survivors
Depth:: 55 ft

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San Jose

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, USA ( United Fruit Company, now Chiquita )
Built:: 1904, Ireland
Specs:: ( 330 x 44 ft ) 3358 gross tons, 35 crew
Sunk:: Saturday January 17, 1942
collision with C2-class freighter Santa Elisa - later torpedoed by U-123 - no casualties
Depth:: 100 ft

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San Saba

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, USA
Name:: San Saba is a river in central Texas, a tributary of the Colorado River of Texas.
Built:: 1879, Chester PA USA, as Colorado
Specs:: ( 306 x 39 ft ) 2458 gross tons, 37 crew
Sunk:: Friday October 4, 1918
struck mine laid by U-117 - 30 casualties
Depth:: 80 ft

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Sandy Hook

Type:: bay-side saltwater cove
Depth:: 20 ft max

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Sandy Hook Pilot Boat

Type:: shipwreck, pilot boat, converted yacht, USA
Built:: 1902, Elizabeth NJ USA, as Anstice, later Privateer
Specs:: ( 168 x 24 ft ) 361 gross tons, 26 crew & harbor pilots
Sunk:: Thursday April 27, 1939
collision with tanker Oslofjord ( 16500 tons) - no casualties
GPS:: 40°27.556' -73°49.490' (AWOIS 1986)
Depth:: 100 ft

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Sub Chaser SC-60

Type:: shipwreck, submarine chaser, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1917, New York NY USA
Specs:: ( 110 x 14 ft ) 85 tons
Sunk:: Tuesday October 1, 1918
collision with tanker Fred W. Waller - 2 casualties
Depth:: 45 ft

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Scotland

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, England
Built:: 1865, England
Specs:: ( 430 x 38 ft ) 3695 tons
Sunk:: Saturday December 1, 1866
collision with sailing ship Kate Dyer ( 1275 tons )
Depth:: 22 ft

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Sea Girt

Type:: shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
Built:: 1949, RTC Shipbuilding, Camden NJ, USA
Specs:: ( 120 ft )
Sunk:: August 1990
Depth:: 65 ft

intact, upright, steel hull

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Sea Girt Inlet

Sea Girt Inlet is reduced to an outflow pipe. The water it releases is often so contaminated with goose droppings that it causes beach closings for miles around.

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Almost all diving activities, whether in the tropics or in colder waters, will require some sort of exposure suit. For local conditions, this means either a full heavy wetsuit or a drysuit. For the tropics, there are thinner wetsuits and fabric skins, but these are never warm enough for use around here. Water temperatures in the north Atlantic vary from just above freezing at depth during the coldest part of the year to the mid-seventies at the surface during the warmest. Typically, you can expect high-fifties to low-sixties at depth even over the summer.

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