Cape May - WINTHROP
New Jersey · 12.8–18 m
Artificial reef built from 120' Trawler - "Winthrop" NJDEP deployment record: Ship, material: 120' Trawler - "Winthrop", deployed 1989.
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Cape May - Lisa Michelle
New Jersey · 12.8–17.1 m
Artificial reef built from 110' Deck Barge - "Lisa Michelle" NJDEP deployment record: Ship, material: 110' Deck Barge - "Lisa Michelle", deployed 1990.
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Mariner 1
Florida · Up to 38.1 m
Artificial reef built from 170' Long Dutch Freighter, the "Union Express"
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U-85 (Wrack)
North Carolina · 27.4–33.5 m
U-85, a Type VIIB U-boat sunk by USS Roper on 14 April 1942, was the first German submarine lost off the US East Coast in WWII. The largely intact hull lies on its starboard side in about 90-110 ft of water 14 miles east of Oregon Inlet on the Outer Banks, with the four forward torpedo tubes exposed. It is a German war grave for the 46 crew lost and one of the most historic recreational wreck dives on the East Coast.
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Mustang Island Liberty Ship
Texas · 25–33.5 m
Mustang Island Liberty Ship is a dive site located in United States. Depths run to roughly 34 m. The site is reached by boat.
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Butterfly House
California · 4.6–27.4 m
An advanced Carmel shore dive named for the private home with a butterfly-shaped roofline on Scenic Road south of Carmel Point. A steep winding path leads down the cliff to a rocky staging area and tricky entry, beyond which lie granite reefs, sand channels and a rich giant kelp forest with depths dropping from 15-20 feet near shore to 60-90 feet within kicking range. The site is exposed to swell from nearly every direction and should only be dived on very small swell.
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NORTH STAR (55 ft long wooden eastern rig dragger) Wreck
Massachusetts · Up to 25.6 m
The North Star was a 55-foot wooden eastern rig dragger built in 1967 in Portland, Maine, that fished out of Gloucester until it capsized on August 28, 2003, when an overloaded clam dredge rolled the vessel; both crew members were rescued by a nearby fishing boat. The wreck lies in about 100 feet of water on the northern end of Stellwagen Bank in three scattered sections: the hull, a clam dredge roughly 100 feet away, and deck machinery still linked to the dredge by towing cable. NOAA's Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary once maintained a dive mooring here, but the site has since been heavily damaged and displaced by scallop fishing gear and is no longer maintained as a recreational dive site.
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7 - P3 and Dolphin
Delaware · Up to 12.8 m
Artificial reef built from Concrete, Plus 35' and 42' Steel Vessels (“P3” and “Dolphin”)
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Forward shipwreck site
New York · 9–12.2 m
A NYS DEC Submerged Heritage Preserve off Diamond Island in the south basin of Lake George. The centerpiece is the Forward, a roughly 45-foot wooden launch and one of the earliest gasoline-powered boats on the lake, sitting in about 40 feet of water. Developed in 1997-98 as an interpretive 'underwater classroom' with a triangular trail of stations including a zebra-mussel monitoring point, fish observation zone, simulated archaeology site, a Secchi disk, navigation course and signage.
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Edge of the World Verified
Hawaii · 15–46 m
Edge of the World is a back-wall Molokini site where ledges and shadowed wall terrain drop into very deep water. It is a serious advanced-to-technical profile: divers can stay recreationally shallow, but the terrain invites depth creep beyond normal recreational limits. Treat it as a guided boat wall/drift dive for divers with excellent buoyancy and gas discipline.
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