Salem Wrecks

Salem Wrecks & Nuclear Power Plant

In case you didn't watch the whole video, you can't actually go here or fly a drone without permission from the power company.

An old postcard of the power plant with the ferry Elizabeth in the foreground, inside the breakwater. Elizabeth was later sunk in the Cape May Artificial Reef.

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x-ray

These creatures are all of the order Gastropoda - having a single, often coiled, shell, as opposed to the bivalves, which have two matching shells. Most snails are hermaphroditic. Also, most snails have a right-hand twist to the shell, although there are exceptions.

Right:
X-ray image of a Channeled Whelk, showing internal structure.

Nudibranchs are a form of snail that has lost its shell, while Corollas and Sea Butterflies are snails that have abandoned not just their shells, but the snail-like existence entirely, swimming up into the water column as plankton.