New Jersey Scuba Diving

Type:

shipwreck, freighter, USA ( United Fruit Company, now Chiquita )

Built:

1904, Ireland

Specs:

( 330 x 44 ft ) 3358 gross tons, 35 crew

Sunk:

Saturday January 17, 1942
collision with C2-class freighter Santa Elisa - later torpedoed by U-123 - no casualties

Depth:

100 ft

The San Jose was dynamited in the 1950s. Today she sits in 100 ft of water on a mud bottom. Her wreckage is spread over a wide area, with the main portion of the hull on its port side, pretty much intact. She can be penetrated and divers can enter long corridors with adjoining rooms. The bottom of silty mud can be disturbed very easily, dropping the normally poor visibility to zero.

Editor's Note 2018: This sounds like a very old description. I would expect the wreck has collapsed into a flattened junk pile by now.

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