New Jersey Scuba Diving

Brooklyn DPC-15

Brooklyn reef
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat
Built:
1943 Neponset MA USA as DPC-15, later Brooklyn
Specs:
( 86 ft )
Sponsor:
Friends of the Norma K
Dedication:
Joan La Rie III
Sunk:
Tuesday October 30, 2001 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°03.390' -73°59.550'
Brooklyn reef
Brooklyn reef side-scan
Side-scan sonar image of the tug on the bottom. Note the gouge in the sand where the ship landed and slid, still evident almost a year later. The black sonar shadow matches the profile of the wreck as seen in the photo above.
Brooklyn reef
The old Brooklyn has some interesting events in her past. Here she is, loaded with contraband firearms to be 'reefed' in Long Island Sound by order of Mayor Fiorello Laguardia.
Brooklyn reef
And here again on another occasion. Laguardia was on a drive to clean up New York. Note the photographer, although I don't see the mayor himself.
Brooklyn reef
I've never seen a tugboat captain dressed so spiffy. Times have changed.

Reef site named in memorial of the Joan La Rie III.

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