Sandy Hook Dive Sites Chart

Sandy Hook / Rockaway Inlet Chart

  1. Barge #10
  2. 120 Wreck
  3. 3 Sisters
  4. Ambrose Buoy
  5. A Street - Shark River
  6. Acara
  7. Across
  8. Adele
  9. Ajace
  10. Alex Mac
  11. Allenhurst Jetty
  12. Antioch
  13. Arnoff
  14. Arundo
  15. Asfalto
  16. Aurora
  17. Ayuruoca
  18. BA Wreck
  19. Shark River - Back Bay
  20. Balaena
  21. Bald Eagle
  22. BD1738
  23. USS Benson
  24. Beth Dee Bob
  25. Blue Boy
  26. Bronx Queen
  27. Bug Light
  28. Charles Dunlap
  29. Cecilia M Dunlap
  30. Catherine Jackson
  31. Chauncy Jerome
  32. Cornelia Soule
  33. Choapa
  34. coal (Lido)
  35. Continent
  36. crane barge
  37. Daghestan
  38. Dragger
  39. drydock
  40. Dryland
  41. Edwin Duke / Stone Barge
  42. dump
  43. Dutch Springs
  44. Edmund Phinney
  45. East Rockaway Inlet
  46. Ed's Schooner
  47. Elberon Rocks
  48. Eureka
  49. Finance
  50. Fort Victoria
  51. German
  52. GL78
  53. Glen II
  54. I.P. Goulandris
  55. Gypsy
  56. Horseshoe Cove
  57. Alexander Hamilton
  58. Howard
  59. Iberia
  60. Immaculata
  61. Inshore Schooner
  62. Jack I
  63. Joan La Rie III
  64. Jones Inlet
  65. Jones Tug
  66. Klondike Rocks
  67. Larsen
  68. Lizzie D
  69. Long Branch locomotives
  70. Logwood
  71. H.W. Long
  72. Macedonia
  73. Mahogany
  74. Malta
  75. Manasquan Inlet
  76. Margaret
  77. Marion
  78. Mistletoe
  79. R.C. Mohawk
  80. Manasquan Wreck
  81. Nautilus
  82. Navesink River
  83. Northeast Sailor
  84. New Reef
  85. New Deal
  86. New Era
  87. HMS Pentland Firth
  88. Long Branch Pier Rubble
  89. Pinta
  90. Pipe Barge
  91. Pliny
  92. Plymouth
  93. Pocopson
  94. Princess Anne
  95. Ruth Shaw
  96. Robert A Snow
  97. Ramos
  98. Ranger
  99. Relief Lightship
  100. Rickseckers
  101. Rjukan
  102. Rockaway Inlet
  103. Rockaway Belle
  104. Round Valley
  105. Roy's barge
  106. Rudder Wreck - Pocono
  107. Rusland / Adonis
  108. Scotland Buoy
  109. Sandy Hook Pilot Boat
  110. SC-60
  111. Sea Girt Inlet
  112. Sea Girt Wreck
  113. Shark River Inlet
  114. Shrewsbury Rocks
  115. Spring Lake Sailor
  116. Steel Wreck
  117. Stolt Dagali
  118. Sylvanus
  119. Tampa III
  120. USS Turner
  121. AWOIS 8087
  122. AWOIS 8097
  123. u11
  124. AWOIS 7509
  125. AWOIS 7932
  126. AWOIS 9768
  127. AWOIS 12966/11422
  128. AWOIS 1609
  129. AWOIS 8084
  130. AWOIS 7940
  131. AWOIS 7938
  132. AWOIS 8076
  133. AWOIS 4600
  134. AWOIS 8075
  135. Valerie E
  136. Vega
  137. Warrior
  138. Delaware River Water Gap
  139. Western World
  140. Edward W Winslow
  141. Edward W Winslow

Sandy Hook Dive Sites

NOAA chart 12326
Chart 12326

Shipwreck Tampa III
Type:
shipwreck, party boat, USA
Built:
1960, USA
Specs:
( 72 x 20 ft ) 90 gross tons
Sunk:
Saturday July 4, 1970
collision in fog with freighter Mormacglen (12,700 DWT), 1 casualty
GPS:
40°28.093' -73°53.578' (AWOIS 1986)
Depth:
50 ft

Shipwreck Relief - Lightship WAL-505
Type:
shipwreck, lightship, USCG
Name:
Named for its job - as the "relief ship" for the other regular lightships along the eastern seaboard.
Built:
1904, New York Shipbuilding, Camden NJ USA
Specs:
( 129 x 28 ft ) 631 gross tons, 9 crew
Sunk:
Friday June 24, 1960
collision with freighter Green Bay - no casualties
GPS:
40°27.144' -73°49.070' (AWOIS 2003)
Depth:
105 ft, main deck at 90

Shipwreck 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.


from AWOIS: 1607

NM47/66 -- DANGEROUS WRECK OF DREDGE DRYLAND, 62 FT. LONG. 22 FT. WIDE REPORTED SUNK IN ABOUT 90 FT. COVERED ABOUT 55 FT.

CL1540/78 -- MAR, OPR-C622-RU/HE-78; ITEM 4; INVESTIGATION BEGAN 30 AUGUST AND WAS COMPLETED ON 18 SEPTEMBER. EFFECTIVELY CLEARED TO MIN. OF 45.5 FT., (38.5 FT. ON A 40 FT. SHOAL), WITH NO HANGS ENCOUNTERED.

FE221/78-79 -- OPR-C622-RU/HE; ITEM 4; REQUIRED CLEARANCE TO 45 FT. DUE TO POSSIBLE HAZARDS ON THE BOTTOM. 1 MILE, RADIUS CIRCLE DRAGGED TO 45 FT. EXCEPT TO 38 FT. ON 40 FT. SHOAL (SEE AWOIS NO.00752) NW OF AMBROSE LIGHT TOWER. NO HANGS ENCOUNTERED. RECOMMENDED THAT CLEARED AREA BE CHARTED WITH GREEN TINT WITH 45 FT. CLEARANCE NOTE WHERE APPROPRIATE.

H10224/86-87 -- OPR-C121-WH-86-87; WRECK FOUND DURING MAIN SCHEME HYDROGRAPHY AND SIDE-SCAN SONAR OPERATION 850M EAST OF REPORTED POSITION; SIX DIVES PERFORMED; 2-15 FT VISIBILITY; PNEUMATIC DEPTH GAUGE LEAST DEPTH OF 86 FT TAKEN ON TOP OF A 20 FT LONG DREDGE PIPE FLOAT FOUND 841.6M EAST OF AWOIS POSITION; WRECK SITE REVEALED PIPES, FLOATS, AND DREDGING EQUIPMENT. (UPDATED MSD 4/91)


Alexander Hamilton
Aground on a sandbar in Highlands, circa 1975

The Alexander Hamilton was the last of the steam-powered side-wheel riverboats of the Hudson River Day Line. Built in 1924, she ceased operations in 1971. A well-meaning group pulled the Hamilton from the mud in 1977 and moved her to a temporary berth along the east side of the Navy pier, planning to restore her as a museum. Unfortunately, at the new more-exposed location, the old vessel was sunk and reduced to scrap by a sudden storm in November of that year. The last records indicate that the wreck is still there, and you can even make out the outline on Google Earth.


H10224/86 -- OPR-C121-WH-86; WHILE INVESTIGATING ITEM 751, AN AREA WITH NUMEROUS SIDE-SCAN SONAR CONTACT WAS FOUND AND DEVELOPED USING SIDE-SCAN AND ECHO SOUNDER; DIVER INVESTIGATION DETERMINED LIMITS OF SITE, NATURE OF WRECKAGE, AND LOCATION OF THE LEAST DEPTH; SITE WAS ORIENTED NORTHEAST-SOUTHWEST; CONSISTS MOSTLY OF SHIPYARD DEBRIS IN THE FORM OF HEAT EXCHANGERS, BUCKLED DECK PLATING, TWISTED ANGLE IRON, WOODEN RIBS, AND PIPING OF VARIOUS LENGTHS AND SIZES; THE NORTHEAST END OF THE SITE CONSISTED OF A BARGE LYING IN A NORTHWEST-SOUTHEAST DIRECTION WITH THE BOW OF THE BARGE DEFINING THE SOUTHEAST WALL OF THE SITE; THE NORTHWEST END OF THE BARGE, THE STERN, WAS COVERED WITH METAL DEBRIS, HAWSER LINES, AND TRAWLER NETTING; DIVERS CONCLUDED THAT THIS SITE IS THE WRECK OF A BARGE THAT WAS FILLED WITH SHIPYARD SCRAP IRON AND DEBRIS; PNEUMATIC DEPTH GAUGE LEAST DEPTH OF 50 FT. (ENTERED MSD 4/91)


Specs:
Landing Craft?
Sunk:
during World War II ?
Depth:
20 ft

This wreck is described only as a "Troop Carrier" from World War II. Given its location, I would guess that what is meant by this is most likely a landing craft; probably lost in an accident during an amphibious training exercise by the Army.