drydock

Drydock reef
Type:
artificial reef, drydock barge
Specs:
( 100 ft )
Sunk:
February 1979 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
Sponsor:
Artificial Reef Committee
Depth:
75 ft
GPS:
40°07.759' -73°56.384'

A large rectangular wooden structure, now deteriorated. Many large fallen timbers ought to provide homes for lobsters, but they are disappointingly few and small, probably because this site is visited so often. The interior is full of stones and pipes. In 2006 it was pulverized under a large load of concrete.

Drydock reef
Drydock reef
Side-scan sonar image, 1998. The side walls have long-since collapsed.

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Type:
shipwreck, barge
Built:
1918
Specs:
1041 tons
Sunk:
Monday September 3, 1934
foundered - no casualties
Depth:
42 ft

The Diggs was engaged in a salvage operation at the time of her loss and actually settled on top of another shipwreck, of unknown origin. The green blinker buoy for which it is known was removed after the wooden wreck was demolished in the 1970s. Also known as the "Green Blinker Wreck".

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