Sandy Hook Dive Sites Chart ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Sandy Hook Dive Sites Chart

Sandy Hook Dive Sites

Dual Wrecks

Shipwreck Rusland — The *Rusland*, aground, with onlookers.

Type:: Adonis - shipwreck, wood-hulled bark
Rusland - shipwreck, iron-hulled steamer, England
Built:: Adonis - 1853, Germany
Rusland - 1872, Scotland, as Kenilworth
Specs:: Adonis - 550 tons, 12 crew
Rusland - ( 345 x 37 ft ) 2538 gross tons, ~200 passengers & crew
Depth:: 25 ft
Sunk:: Adonis - Tuesday March 8, 1859 - ran aground in bad weather, no casualties
Rusland - Saturday March 17, 1877 - ran aground in bad weather, no casualties

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New Era

Type:: shipwreck, clipper, USA
Specs:: 1300 tons, ~500 passengers & crew
Sunk:: November 13, 1854; ran aground during storm - few survivors

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Benson

Type:: shipwreck, probably a barge
Depth:: 120 ft

A sailing ship or small steamship in 120 feet of water. Sandy bottom, but given to silty conditions. Like the Deep Dry Dock, she has been dragged apart, mowed down, and pulled apart. She has some nice bronze parts strewn about.

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Shrewsbury Rocks

The Shrewsbury Rocks are a wide area of rocky bottom that stretches from fourteen feet of water out to the fifty-foot mark off of Monmouth Beach. Some of the formations are twenty feet tall or more and can be very pretty under good conditions, which are unfortunately seldom this far north. The stone itself is a type of sandstone known as Greensand.

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Rickseckers

Type:: shipwreck, steamer
Depth:: 66 ft

This is the remains of an unidentified vessel which we located in August of 1986. She appears to be an old paddlewheel steamship, but this is only speculation and has yet to be confirmed. The only artifact I've found on this little wreck was a perfume bottle with the name "Rickseckers Perfume" on it, hence the name, Rickseckers.

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