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Dive Sites - New Jersey

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Shark River Artificial Reef

15.6 Nautical Miles off Manasquan
Depth: 120-140 ft [download]


Type:
shipwreck
Depth:
120 ft

A small steel wreck, greatly decomposed.

Possibly the remains of the Oklahoma.


Shrewsbury / Elberon Rocks

The Shrewsbury Rocks are a wide area of rocky bottom that stretches from fourteen feet of water out to the fifty-foot mark off of Monmouth Beach. Some of the formations are twenty feet tall or more and can be very pretty under good conditions, which are unfortunately seldom this far north. The stone itself is a type of sandstone known as Greensand.


Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship
Specs:
1000 tons, 20 crew
Sunk:
Saturday January 6, 1877
foundered in storm - no casualties

wooden, alternately buried and exposed


Shipwreck Sindia
Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship, USA
Built:
1887, Ireland
Specs:
( 329 x 45 ft ) 3068 gross tons, 34 crew
Sunk:
Sunday December 15, 1901
ran aground in storm - no casualties
Depth:
0-5 ft depending on the tide

Type:
rock pile
Depth:
60 ft

field of huge granite slabs


Type:
shipwreck
Depth:
120 ft

A large steel wreck, partially intact.

Possibly the remains of the Kennebec.




Shipwreck Stolt Dagali
Type:
shipwreck, tanker, Norway
Name:
Stolt is the name of the line that owned the ship; it translates "proud". Dagali is a mountain valley in Norway.
Built:
1955, Denmark, as Dagali
Specs:
( 582 x 70 ft ) 12723 gross tons, 43 crew
Sunk:
Thursday November 26, 1964 ( Thanksgiving day )
collision with liner Shalom ( 25,338 tons ) - 19 casualties
Depth:
130 ft, starts at 60 ft


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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