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Sandy Hook Dive Sites (4/12)

Sandy Hook / Rockaway Inlet

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Dutch Springs (Lake Hydra)

1980 - 2021: The End of an Era

Sadly, 2021 is Dutch Springs' final year of operation. The owner has retired after 40+ years of building and running the facility, and the property has been sold to a developer to become warehouses. See the link in the sidebar.

lakehydra.com

Dutch Springs contains many interesting artificial reefs for divers to explore. In fact, even the hole itself is man-made - it is an old limestone quarry.

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Edmund Phinney

Type:: shipwreck, sailing ship
Sunk:: Saturday December 14, 1907
ran aground 72 mph gale - no casualties (incredible)
Depth:: 25 ft

400 yards offshore, mostly buried, wooden

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Elberon Rocks

see Shrewsbury Rocks

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Eureka

Type:: shipwreck, trawler?, USA
Depth:: 110 ft

debris field, boiler, machinery

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Fort Victoria

Type:: shipwreck, liner, Furness-Bermuda Line, Bermuda
Built:: 1913, Scotland, as Willochra
Specs:: ( 411 x 56 ft ) 7784 gross tons, 371 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Wednesday December 18, 1929
collision in fog with liner Algonquin ( see Mohawk ) - no casualties
GPS:: 40°28.907' -73°54.398' (AWOIS 1991)
Depth:: 50 ft

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G.L. 78

Type:: shipwreck, barge
Specs:: ( 50 ft )
Sunk:: Saturday September 11, 1937
GPS:: 40°18.834' -73°53.094' (AWOIS 2008)
Depth:: 65 ft

This wreck is often referred to as a trawler, but it is really a self-propelled wooden dump scow of the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company.

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German

unknown

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Glen II

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat
Specs:: ( 83 ft ) 68 tons
Sunk:: Saturday January 31, 1953
Depth:: 80 ft

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Ioannis P. Goulandris

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Greece
Name:: One of the Goulandris brothers, who's shipping company owned the vessel.
Built:: 1910, England, as Maria Stathatos
Specs:: ( 362 x 51 ft ) 3750 gross tons, 31 crew
Sunk:: Tuesday December 1, 1942
collision with freighter Intrepido - no casualties
Depth:: 190 ft

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Gypsy

Type:: shipwreck, barge
Depth:

Location courtesy of Capt. Dan Berg

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Sandy Hook Dive Sites

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