Sandy Hook Dive Sites (7/11)
- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge
- Built:
- 1916, Elkton MD USA
- Specs:
- ( 199 x 24 ft ) 474 tons
- Sunk:
- Monday March 31, 1924
foundered in storm, 5 casualties ( see Pocono ) - Depth:
- 65 ft
More: Plymouth ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge
- Built:
- 1905, Newburgh NY (TS Marvel)
- Specs:
- ( 156 ft ) 698 tons
- Sunk:
- Monday March 31, 1924
foundered in storm - Depth:
- 60 ft
More: Pocono "Rudder Wreck" ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge, USA
- Built:
- 1906, Noank CT, USA
- Specs:
- ( 177 x 35 ft ) 721 tons, 3 crew
- Sunk:
- Wednesday October 7, 1936
foundered in storm, no casualties - GPS:
- 40°12.204' -73°59.257' (AWOIS 1990)
- Depth:
- 50 ft
More: Pocopson ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, liner, USA
- Built:
- 1897, Chester PA USA
- Specs:
- ( 350 x 42 ft ) 3629 gross tons
- Sunk:
- February 6, 1920; ran aground in storm - no casualties
- Depth:
- 20 ft
More: Princess Anne ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, revenue cutter, U.S. Revenue Service, on loan to U.S. Navy
- Name:
- A tribe of Iroquoian Indians of the eastern New York area.
- Built:
- 1902, Richmond VA USA
- Specs:
- ( 206 x 32 ft ) 980 gross tons, 77 crew
- Sunk:
- Monday October 1, 1917
collision with tanker Vennachar - no casualties - GPS:
- 40°25.025' -73°45.158' (AWOIS 2010)
- Depth:
- 100 ft
More: R.C. Mohawk ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge
- Specs:
- 1208 tons
- Sunk:
- Friday June 30, 1933
- GPS:
- 40°25.505' -73°54.071' (AWOIS 1990)
- Depth:
- 80 ft
Nearby are the remains of several other barges.
More: Ramos ...
This bay is muddy and turbid, although some folks dive the several small wrecks around the inside of Sandy Hook. Bottle hunting around the old piers and pilings in Keyport harbor is also a possibility, but most of the structures along the bay shore are too small and shallow to be of interest. I have scouted the shoreline from Atlantic Highlands to Laurence Harbor, and nothing looks too promising. See also entries on Navesink River and Horseshoe Cove.
More: Raritan Bay ...
Copper, brass, and bronze are all relatively immune to saltwater corrosion. Brass artifacts of all sorts are easily cleaned up into shiny souvenirs for those who value them. Bright green copper sheets and tubes add color to many wrecks, while bronze is the material of choice for the most coveted of all diver's artifacts - a ship's bell.
Copper and some of its alloys have been used by humanity since the Bronze Age. One of the first metals known to humans, free copper was probably mined in the Tigris-Euphrates valley as long ago as the 5th century BC. Cyprus, from which the metal's name originally comes, was the primary source of copper in the ancient world.
More: Copper, Brass & Bronze ...