Link: Scuba Blog
First of all, you all probably know there is a small fleet of dredgers pounding back and forth across the shoreline on the NJ coast, sucking up sand to replenish the beaches.
Monday night I got a call from my friend Billy, who was part of a private dive club going to visit some "interesting numbers" that one of the dredgers working the NJ coastline had found.
According to Billy, one dredger in particular, the "San Vincente Turgid," had been re-directed here from Boston where it had been working on cleaning out the shipping lanes going into and out of the harbor. According to Billy, the San Vincente Turgid came around Montauk and headed in a direct line to Point Pleasant, NJ. About 45 miles off shore of Asbury Park, it picked up an unusual blip in about 155 feet of water. As luck would have it, the Turgid was testing its new trailing suction hopper dredge when several large pieces of debris got caught in its suction pipe.
Sailors had to bring the suction pipe up to the deck to clear it, and what they found surprised them all. The rest of the dive report, which is kind of long, is posted on my blog to spare Mo the extensive bandwith:
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