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Long Island East Dive Sites Chart

Long Island East Dive Sites

Black Point

Type:: shipwreck, collier, USA
Built:: 1918, Camden NJ USA
Specs:: ( 369 x 55 ft ) 5353 displacement tons
Sunk:: Saturday May 5, 1945
torpedoed by U-853 - 12 casualties
Depth:: 85 ft

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Olinda

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, Portugal
Built:: 1887, England
Specs:: ( 250 x 36 ft ) 1479 gross tons
Sunk:: Tuesday June 11, 1895
ran aground on Fisher's Island - no casualties
Depth:: 20 ft

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John C. Fitzpatrick

Type:: shipwreck, schooner barge, USA
Built:: 1892
Specs:: ( 242 x 39 ft ) 1277 gross tons, 5 crew
Sunk:: Friday April 3, 1903
holed by explosion - 5 casualties
Depth:: 130 ft

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Larchmont

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, USA
Built:: 1885, Bath ME USA
Specs:: ( 252 x 37 ft ) 1605 tons, 351 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Monday February 11, 1907
collision with schooner Harry Knowlton - 334 casualties
Depth:: 140 ft

huge paddlewheels; wooden hull draped with fishing nets; hazardous currents & poor viz.

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Grecian

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, USA
Built:: 1899 Wilmington DE USA
Specs:: ( 263 x 29 ft ) 2825 tons, 34 crew
Sunk:: Friday May 27, 1932
collision with SS City of Chattanooga - 4 casualties
Depth:: 95 ft

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Twelve-Mile Artificial Reef

Depth: 123 - 143 ft

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New Developments in Artificial Reefs

The Pauline Marie sinks slowly on the Atlantic City Reef.

By Evelyn DeWitt Myatt & Bill Figley, 1986

It's hard to imagine anything that could have looked more forlorn than the rusty old freighter whose proud seagoing days were a thing of the past. Floating idly at her berth awaiting her fate, she was a victim of nature's ravages that had left her beautiful only in the eyes of her old captain and crew. The Pauline Marie, however, was not destined to be the victim of a cutting torch that would turn her into a tangle of scrap steel. Instead, she was acquired by the New Jersey Artificial Reef Program and went down with dignity as an artificial reef in March 1985. She now provides continuing services from her watery grave in the Atlantic, some twelve miles off Atlantic City, and her appeal to marine life is undeniable. Her interior compartments now shelter fish and crustaceans; her decks now provide substrate for mussels, soft corals, and plant life; and her newfound productivity has put delicious seafood on many tables.

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