Sandy Hook Dive Sites (5/12)
- Type:
- shipwreck, trawler, Royal Navy
- Name:
- Pentland Firth is the channel between the northern tip of Scotland and the Islands that form Scapa Flow, the great British naval base, and today one of the best wreck diving locales in the world.
- Built:
- 1934, England
- Specs:
- ( 164 x 27 ft ) 485 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Saturday September 19, 1942
collision with minesweeper trawler USS Chaffinch (400 tons) - ? casualties - GPS:
- 40°25.433' -73°52.204' (AWOIS 1991)
- Depth:
- 70 ft
More: HMS Pentland Firth ...
Looking roughly south: Sandy Hook is barely visible at upper-right, Rockaway inlet at the upper-left, Brooklyn at lower-left, Staten Island at lower-right. The shipping channel is also plainly obvious.
More: Hudson/East Rivers ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, barge
- Depth:
- 95 ft
This wreck seems to be one or more wooden barges, possibly garbage barges from the 1920s. There is an anchor in one spot near a machinery pile, and in other spots, the old walls rise perhaps 10 ft off the bottom. But otherwise, everything is pretty broken down. This forms many hiding holes for lobster and rock crabs, and there is one in almost every hole, and some quite large. The Sea Bass are also good-sized. Yellowish natural sponges and bottles are easy to find.
More: Immaculata ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, tanker
- Specs:
- ( 120 ft )
- Depth:
- 115 ft
This is erroneously called a tug, but its shape and size indicate that she was once might have been a small oiler or tanker. The wreck lies upright in the muddy bottom at 120 feet. She comes up 15 feet off the bottom in many places and is mostly intact. I have little idea of age, but her conditions suggest she's been there for 30-40 years or more.
More: Larsen ...
- Type:
- 2 identical small locomotives
- Sunk:
- 1850s ?
- GPS:
- 40.274769° --73.872292° (AWOIS 1991)
- Depth:
- 85 ft
More: Locomotives ...
