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Hokusai - The Great Wave (1831)


Type:
artificial reef, trawler
Built:
1977, Steiner Shipyard, Bayou La Batre AL as Margaret Rose
Specs:
( 77 ft ) 142 gross tons
Sunk:
Thursday Feb 13, 2025 - Manasquan Artificial Reef
GPS:
UNPUBLISHED
Depth:
75 ft

The Susan Rose is a secret reef, sunk with no public notice or announcement. It will no doubt be used for another "period of successional development and monitoring" like the Carrabassett since 2024 and the New England Coast since 2023. Here is the NJDEP contact form if you would like to inquire about the progress of these studies:



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The Susan Rose was re-sunk as an artificial reef in February. Over two months later there still has been no public announcement. Here is the NJDEP contact form if you would like to inquire:


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New England Coast, sunk July 2023

I finally added two "new" artificial reefs, the Carrabassett on the Axel Carlson Reef and the New England Coast on the Shark River Reef. I have been waiting patiently for the numbers to be released, and was just informed that these two sites are undergoing "a period of successional development and monitoring" before publication. These studies were never announced at the time, in fact the New England Coast was kept out of the newspapers entirely, obviously so the science would not be tainted by the public. I imagine this study is a lot like this one, conducted by NJDEP fisheries biologists Jennifer Resciniti and Bill Figley over the course of 8 years, published in 2003.


Susan Rose Sunk in February

The Susan Rose was re-sunk as an artificial reef in February. At present there still has been no public announcement. Here is the NJDEP contact form if you would like to inquire:

New Jersey Artificial Reefs



I did some php programming in my custom WordPress theme, and gave it a new ability. Now on each page I can embed related pages, which previously only appeared as links in the sidebar ( and still do. ) While it is possible to embed anywhere, the sensible place is at the end, after all the content. Embedding a page in the middle of another page would probably be confusing. Actually, when a page is embedded, only the beginning of it is displayed, with a link to the whole thing. Then I got an even better idea, and added the page's 'parent' to the list. I also made some formatting changes so that each embedded page is clearly a separate entity.

What is really cool about this for this website is that now every dive site's page now includes the relevant charts. This is something I always had in the back of my mind, but I never thought of an easy way to do it across hundreds of pages, until now. Once the code was finished, it took just a single change in the WordPress setup to make it happen.


Shark River Artificial Reef

15.6 Nautical Miles off Manasquan
Depth: 120-140 ft [download]


Shipwreck India Arrow
Type:
shipwreck, tanker, USA
Built:
1921, Bethlehem Quincy, Quincy MA USA
Specs:
( 468 x 62 ft ) 8327 gross tons, 38 crew
Sunk:
Wednesday February 4, 1942
torpedoed by U-103 - 12 survivors
Depth:
190 ft

Weather Stations

44402 is a tsunami warning buoy, it doesn't do anything else.


Chesapeake was the largest oyster dredge boat built on the Chesapeake Bay.
Type:
shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
Built:
1936, Johnson Marine Railway, Crittenden VA USA
Specs:
( 93 x 25 ft ) 113 gross tons
Sunk:
early 1980s, burned, no casualties
Depth:








Shipwreck Joan La Rie III
Type:
shipwreck, party boat
Specs:
( 47 ft ) 22 crew & passengers
Sunk:
Sunday Oct 24, 1982
foundered in rough weather - 6 casualties
Depth:
80 ft

probably nothing left but the engine, and that is probably buried



Nils S reef
Type:
artificial reef, clam dredge, USA
Built:
1948, RTC Shipbuilding, Camden NJ, USA, as Brigantine
Specs:
( 122 x 24 ft ) 178 gross tons
Sponsor:
Gifford Marine Company, Ocean City Marlin & Tuna Club, Fish America Foundation
Sunk:
Saturday April 23, 1989 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°13.610' -74°13.045'
Depth:
90 ft

Ocean Wreck Divers I reef
Type:
artificial reef, MLB-44 patrol boats ( 2 ), US Coast Guard
Built:
1963, Curtis Bay MD USA
Specs:
( 44 x 12 ft ) 20 tons
Sponsor:
Ocean Wreck Divers (USCG 44333)
VHFC - Village Harbor Fishing Club, GDF (USCG 44322)
Depth:
OWD - 60 ft
VHFC - 80 ft
Sunk:
OWD - Tuesday July 11, 1995
VHFC - Tuesday May 16, 1995 - Garden State South Artificial Reef
GPS - OWD:
39°33.426' -74°05.973'
GPS - VHFC:
39°33.496' -74°05.991'

Starcraft reef
Type:
artificial reef, barge
Built:
1936, Port Richmond, NY USA
Specs:
( 150 x 40 ft ) 684 GT
Sponsor:
Eklof Marine, Ocean Wreck Divers club, Artificial Reef Association, Village Harbor Fishing Club
Sunk:
Wednesday May 11, 1994 - Garden State South Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°33.528' -74°06.309'


Snug Harbor reef
Type:
artificial reef, trawler
Built:
1954, N.R. Norton Welding Co, Bayou La Batre, AL USA
Specs:
( 65 ft ) 50 GT
Sponsor:
Manasquan River Marlin & Tuna Club, Ann E Clark Foundation
Sunk:
Saturday January 28, 2006 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°03.452' -73°59.985'
Depth:
80 ft



Mantank reef
Type:
artificial reef, barge
Built:
1950, Dravo Corporation, Wilmington, DE USA
Specs:
( 224 x 38 ft ) 997 GT
Sponsor:
BassBarn.com, Ann E Clark Foundation, PSE&G Habitat Restoration Fund
Sunk:
Thursday Sept 5, 2002 - Deepwater Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°58.688' -74°11.410'
Depth:
120 ft


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