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
NOAA chart 12326
Chart 12326

Type:
shipwreck, schooner barge
Specs:
1208 tons
Sunk:
Friday June 30, 1933
GPS:
40°25.505' -73°54.071' (AWOIS 1990)
Depth:
80 ft

Nearby are the remains of several other barges.



Shipwreck Continent
Type:
shipwreck, freighter, Canada
Built:
1931, Netherlands? as Castor
Specs:
( 211 x 45 ft ) 466 gross tons, 14 crew
Sunk:
Saturday January 10, 1942
collision with Byron D Benson ( 7953 tons) - 1 casualty
GPS:
40°25.662' -73°50.736' (AWOIS 2013)
Depth:
130 ft

Type:
shipwreck, barge
Depth:
95 ft

This wreck seems to be one or more wooden barges, possibly garbage barges from the 1920s. There is an anchor in one spot near a machinery pile, and in other spots, the old walls rise perhaps 10 ft off the bottom. But otherwise, everything is pretty broken down. This forms many hiding holes for lobster and rock crabs, and there is one in almost every hole, and some quite large. The Sea Bass are also good-sized. Yellowish natural sponges and bottles are easy to find.


Atlantic Beach Artificial Reef

3.0 nautical miles south of Atlantic Beach, 0.64 sq miles
Depth: 55 - 64 ft


from AWOIS:

H10224/86 -- OPR-C121-WH-86; WRECKAGE WITH 52 FT PNEUMATIC DEPTH GAUGE LEAST DEPTH, WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE THIS ITEM, APPROXIMATELY 100M SW OF AWOIS POSITION; DIVERS FOUND THE WRECK OF A BARGE, APPROXIMATELY 20 X 45 M; THREE BOILERS AND NUMEROUS OTHER TYPES OF SHIPYARD DEBRIS WERE FOUND STREWN OVER AN AREA OF 360 X 165 FT; IN THE NW CORNER OF THE SITE THE REMAINS OF ANOTHER WRECK WAS FOUND WITH ONLY THE SHELL PLATING AND FLOOR FRAMING REMAINING; APPROXIMATELY 200 FT LONG, 27 FT BEAM AND SHELL PLATING EXTENDING 5 FT ABOVE THE BOTTOM; BOTH ENDS OF THE WRECK TAPERED INTO THE SAND WITH NO BOW OR STERN VISIBLE; ONE OBJECT CONSISTING OF GUARD RAIL TYPE METAL, APPROXIMATELY 2 FT WIDE, 3/8 INCH THICK, AND 40 FT LONG, FORMING A 60 DEGREE ARCH WITH THE MIDDLE STANDING 10 FT OFF THE BOTTOM; SITE CONSISTED OF TWO WRECKS AND SHIPYARD DEBRIS, INCLUDING A BOOM CRANE; LEAST DEPTH TAKEN ON THE TOP OF THE BOILER LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST SECTION OF SITE. (UPDATED MSD 4/91)


Eastern Pickerel

Esox niger

Size
to 39"

Eastern or 'Chain' pickerels are deep olive-green on the back, shading to a creamy yellow on the belly. Olive green blotches are present within distinct black chain-like or interwoven markings on the sides. There is a distinct dark, vertical bar below the eye. The cheek and gill covers are completely covered by scales. The underside of the lower jaw has 14-17 branchiostegal rays. There are no recognized subspecies. However, they hybridize readily with redfin pickerels. They are distantly related to trout and salmon.