Gwendoline Steers

Type:
shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:
1888, camden NJ USA, as Douglas H. Thomas
Specs:
( 97 x 21 ft ) 148 tons, 9 crew
Sunk:
Sunday December 30, 1962
cause unknown - no survivors
Depth:
40 ft, starts at 20 ft

The Gwendoline Steers was used to haul gravel from a huge gravel pit in Northport to NYC. The loss of the Gwendoline Steers may have been due to icing in a blizzard, or age and poor maintenance. A week earlier she had been run aground. The wreck sits intact and upright, with usually poor visibility.

Shipwreck Gwendoline Steers

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leech

Macrobdella spp.

Size: to 10"

Habitat: aquatic

Notes: It's not a nice thought, but there are leeches in our freshwaters, and in marine habitats as well. The species shown is one of the largest and most attractive, if you can say such a thing. It feeds exclusively on vertebrate blood - a good reason to wear a wetsuit, although I've never encountered one. Leeches are actually worms, not insects, but ...

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