Sandy Hook Artificial Reef
1.6 nautical miles off Sea Bright, 1.76 sq miles
Depth: 40-60 ft [download]
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New Jersey Dive Sites (25/31)
- Type:
- shipwreck, submarine chaser, U.S. Navy
- Built:
- 1917, New York Naval Shipyard, 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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- Type:
- shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
- Built:
- 1949, RTC Shipbuilding, Camden NJ, USA
- Specs:
- ( 120 ft ) 177 GT
- 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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Sea Girt Artificial Reef
- Boy Scout Reef
- car float
- Carlson II
- Cinderella
- Cranford
- drydock
- DVD Barge
- Dykes
- Captain Etzel
- Fisherman Barge
- Golden Eagle
- Horseshoe Wrecks
- Kiley B
- Lewis F Boyer (Travis)
- Liberty Barge 1
- Liberty Barge 2
- Liberty Barge 3
- Liberty Barge 4
- Manasquan Inlet
- Marion
- Matt Turecamo
- Morania 180
- OWD IV
- PATH subway cars
- Railroad barge
- Response
- Restorer
- Rockland County
- Ronde Joyce
- Shark River Inlet
- Smoke II
- Spartan
- Swenson I
- Swenson II
- army tanks
- Wedding Barge
3.6 Nautical Miles off Sea Girt, 1.33 sq miles
Depth: 60-75 ft [download]
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- Type:
- shipwreck, sailing ship
- Depth:
- 85 ft
A large wooden sailing ship, more intact than most. The hull is almost complete, 8-10 feet high, with a Navy-style stockless anchor in one side of the bow, and bowsprit lying in the sand below. The bowsprit indicates that this was a true sailing ship and not a schooner barge. I saw no sign of towing bits, bow, or stern. The stern is broken down.
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- Type:
- shipwreck, barge
- Specs:
- ( 250 ft ? )
- Depth:
- 85 ft
A very large intact steel deck barge, lying upright, north-south. The southern end is partially collapsed and opened up, allowing easy access to at least part of the inside. Rust holes in the deck let light in throughout the rest of the interior, although they are too small to fit through. A great spearfishing site, and not bad for lobsters. The crane lies about 1/4 mile away.
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- Type:
- smallish tidal river inlet with stone jetties or bulkheads on both sides
- Depth:
- 15 ft
The Shark River is your best bet for shore diving in the northern half of the New Jersey coastline, far better than the Manasquan River. Shark River offers at least four different locations to dive: either side of the inlet, with rock jetties to explore, slightly upstream at A Street in Belmar, and upriver in the back bay area at L Street, Belmar. The wreck of the Malta is also just a few blocks south on the beach, but hardly worth diving.
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Histrio histrio
Size: to 6"
Habitat: wherever the current takes them
Notes: Sargassum fishes are found in drifting clumps of Sargassum weed. They are certainly one of the most bizarre fishes you may encounter. Their closest relatives are deep-sea anglerfishes and the local Goosefish. The paired fins are used exactly like arms and legs, and the Sargassum fish is a clumsy and reluctant swimmer. In fact, the pectoral (arm) fins can be folded over below the elbow, giving the fish an opposable grasp much like our own hands!
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