John Jack with Treasure Cove/Pristine Azul to Twin Locomotives Trip Report
Posted by Alek Petersen on 8/9/2014, 11:31 pm
Treasure Cove Divers and Pristine Azul Dive Club visited the Dual Locomotives off Long Branch on Sunday, August 03 via the trusty John Jack dive boat under Captain Rich.
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.
Awesome pics!! Im so sad one has collasped. Last time I was there, they were intact and the viz was amazing, I jumped off the line half way down to reach them. I never saw bigger sea bas anywhere that day.
Hammerheads! wow...and people say Jersey diving is boring!!!
Re: John Jack with Treasure Cove/Pristine Azul to Twin Locomotives Trip Report
I have not been to the locomotives in a couple of years and its too bad one fell down. I guess it just proves that nothing lasts forever. I am glad we got to document them while they were still mostly intact. Did you stay for two dives?????
Re: John Jack with Treasure Cove/Pristine Azul to Twin Locomotives Trip Report
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