Oklahoma ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Oklahoma

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA
Built:: 1908, Camden NJ USA
Specs:: ( 419 x 55 ft ) 5853 gross tons, 38 crew
Sunk:: Sunday January 4, 1914
broke in half in storm - 25 casualties

Stern only, bow drifted away. Either the "Shookus" or the "Boiler Wreck" may be the remains of the Oklahoma.

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Cape May

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Mixed-up Wrecks

According to Gary Gentile in his book Shipwrecks of New Jersey - South, the following three vessels and four known wrecks may be related as suggested here. Or it could be something else entirely.

Mixed-up Wrecks

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August 12, 2022

Hope for Dutch Springs

August 12, 2022

Dutch Springs has new owners and a new name. The aqua park is gone, but here’s when divers might return to popular quarry

By Anthony Salamone
The Morning Call
Lehigh Valley News
Jul 27, 2022

Divers by a sunken boat called the Silver Comet at Dutch Springs, a 50-acre water park and scuba diving site since 1980 that features a 100-foot-deep water filled quarry, north of Bethlehem, Nov. 23, 2021. The Dutch Springs quarry has been acquired by a pair of owners, who plan to resume scuba diving at the Northampton County site next year with a new name: Lake Hydra.
(Michael Turek/The New York Times)

Nearly a year after news leaked about its potential sale for warehousing, the Dutch Springs quarry has new owners and a new name.

Former Northampton County Council member Kenneth Kraft and Jim Folk have bought the water-filled quarry from Trammell Crow Co., which acquired most of the land off Hanoverville Road in Northampton County to develop two warehouses. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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