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5/12/2010
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Have you ever been suba diving off the coast of New Jersey? I had an instructor in college who claimed it was some of the best shipwreck diving in the world. I always thought this was strange, considering you can't possible see past six inches in the water. My instructor, who's name I cannot remember, had been diving all over the world. I'm very curious, as I'd like to someday explore wrecks.
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3/31/2006
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Northeast shipwreck diving is truly great. There are numerous steel wrecks sunk by all maner of natural and man-made disasters. My favorite area, however, remains the Great Lakes. The salt-free, cold water preserves the wrecks and the visibility is incredible. We just dove the wreck of a wooden side-wheeled steamer and a wooden schooner in Lake Michigan this last weekend. They both sank 150 years ago. Visibility was 50 feet.
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4/14/2009
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Diving off the coast of New Jersey is a heaven for wreck divers, WW II history buffs.
Before the US entered the war, German subs patroled our east coast. Shipping, backed by the lights of New York, was a favorite target, and easy prey. Few escort ships, and few patrol ship would allow the U-Boats to use all their torpedoes with great efficiency. They would often run out of torpedoes.
WW II in addition to a couple hundred years of shipping along the east coast make it a wreck divers dream. There is, I believe, two very old, very rare (the only two copies of a particular engine), steam locomotives off the coast.
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