Nobody really knows how these mid-nineteenth century small locomotives ended up on the bottom in about 80' of water about 5 miles off Long Branch. One of the locomotives is intact while it appears that Hurricane Irene or Sandy (more likely Sandy) did severe damage to the other, largely collapsing it. A history can be found here (not my website): http://njscuba.net/sites/site_locomotives.html
A cloudy 15'-20' of vis with a lot of particulate in the water but plenty of light. No current and not too cold. My hands were cold without my gloves on the first dive. Jumped in without them but didn't realize it until I was going down to the wreck and didn't feel like coming back up. However, didn't repeat the mistake on the second dive.
As this small site is a mixture of sand and silt and there were a lot of divers I jumped in early for the second dive to get some less cloudy pics and as a result was one of only a couple on the boat to miss the good sized hammerhead shark that showed up.
It was a good day with a lot of fun for the group.
Photos here: http://s833.photobucket.com/user/alekpetersen/library/Twin%20Locomotives%20via%20John%20Jack%20on%2003%20August%202014?sort=3&page=1
Video to come later.
Dive Safe!
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