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From Mike Nast . . .
On Sunday, I headed to Little Egg Harbor for a trip on the Tuna Seazure. We were off to explore a just discovered unknown wreck, 17 miles off shore. Sunny and warm, but 3 foot rollers on the way out that tossed me like a rag doll in my bunk.
Viz was 15 feet on the bottom, temp. 54 degrees. The wreck is copper plated with a large engine and single 8 foot screw. Copper is everywhere, and the ship was held together with copper drift pins.
Hacksaws were the order of the day, and many drift pins were brought up. I found a complete one that required no sawing but it's too long for my toilet tank (preferred treatment method for objects that have been in salt water for a long time - One time my plumber must have been very confused when he found a piece of U-boat in my toilet tank, he left it on my sink).
Between dives, an aircraft carrier passed within a mile us, and it was huge. We couldn't tell which one it was and it didnt' answer our radio calls. We could hear it on the radio, addressing other boats as the "aircraft carrier on your port bow," but no name (as if you couldn't see this giant ship).
The wreck's identity is unknown, but it's probably from the late 19th century and looks a lot like the Delaware, which a lot of people may be familiar with. On the way in, we ran into a school of blue fin tuna.
From Bob Hanna . . .
12 year old Patrick Beck completed Dives No. 13 and 14 with Smokey Divemasters Bob Hanna, Ralph Spayd, and Bill Hockley. The air temperature was in the 60s. The water Temperature was in the 50s and the VIZ was typical Willow Spring after a storm.
Since this was Patrick's introduction to Willow Spring, we followed the ropes to the Quest, swam through the lower deck and visited the Fire Truck.
In between dives we stayed in the shack where a nice fire kept it toasty and ate hamburgers, hot dogs, carrot soup, tomatoe soup and his mothers delicious cake.
Our second dive took us to the airplane followed by an unsuccessful attempt to locate the unmarked sunken boat.
After these dives of 43 and 49 minutes Patrick declared an end to his first dive season. He is ready for the advanced class to be taken next Spring and possibly a set of his own steel 100s.
Get Out And Dive - LIVE THE ADVENTURE!!!
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