New Jersey Dive Sites (28/31) ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Texas Tower TT-4

Type:: collapsed radar platform, USAF
Built:: 1955, Portland ME USA
Specs:: ( 67 ft above water) 6000 tons, 14 crew (minimum)
Sunk:: Sunday January 15, 1961
storm/structural failure/design deficiency - no survivors
GPS:: 39°47'56.43" -72°40'08.00" (US Navy 2004)
Depth:: 180 ft, starts at 110 ft

The "Three Sisters", as she is called, is an unidentified wooden-hulled vessel. She sits in 80 ft of water some 13 miles south of Atlantic Beach Inlet. She sits on a sandy bottom, spread out over a small area. Her boiler and a 4 bladed propeller are still visible. Wooden beams and planking spread out from the boilers aft towards the propeller. Occasionally some artifacts are found, mostly brass fittings. This is generally a decent wreck for lobsters and spearfishing. This wreck is in a main shipping channel, and large vessels make large wakes, so secure all gear.

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Thurmond

Type:: shipwreck, "whale-back" steamer, USA
Built:: 1890, AmShip Superior, Duluth MN USA, as Colgate Hoyt
Specs:: ( 276 x 36 ft ) 1253 displacement tons
Sunk:: Saturday December 25, 1909
ran aground in thick fog - 10 casualties
Depth:: 14 ft

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Tolten

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Chile ( originally Denmark )
Name:: Tolten is a city on the central coast of Chile.
Built:: 1938, Denmark, as Lotta
Specs:: ( 280 x 43 ft ) 1858 gross tons, 28 crew
Sunk:: Friday March 13, 1942
torpedoed by U-404 - 27 casualties
Depth:: 95 ft

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Townsend's Inlet

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Townsend's Inlet Artificial Reef

3.8 nm offshore, 0.69 sq miles
Depth: 50-65 ft [download]

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Triangle Wrecks

Shipwreck Finance — A salvage vessel moored to the superstructure of the sunken *Finance*.

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, schooner barge, barge (?)
Depth:: 65 ft

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Troop Carrier

Specs:: Landing Craft?
Sunk:: during World War II ?
Depth:: 20 ft

This wreck is described only as a "Troop Carrier" from World War II. Given its location, I would guess that what is meant by this is most likely a landing craft; probably lost in an accident during an amphibious training exercise by the Army.

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U-869

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Built:: 1944, Germany
Sunk:: February 11, 1945
sunk by destroyer escort USS Howard D. Crow - no survivors
Depth:: 240 ft

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u01 - AWOIS 8087

FE327SS/89 -- OPR-C147-HE-89; CONTACT #22 ON SURVEY H-10284/88; DIVER INVESTIGATION FOUND THE REMAINS OF A LARGE WOODEN SHIP OR BARGE COMPLETELY COLLAPSED UPON ITSELF; A LARGE PILE OF BLOCKS, WHICH RESEMBLED BALLAST BLOCKS, REMAINS; DIVER PNEUMATIC DEPTH GAUGE LEAST DEPTH OF 47 FT TAKEN ON TOP OF PILE OF BLOCKS. (ENTERED MSD 7/91)

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