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Note the life-saving breeches-buoy at right
Probably sanded-in by beach restoration work
Slowly going to pieces
Dozens of jetties up and down the coast have been cut-though at the base like this one,
making them inaccessible to fishermen, but not divers !
Closed to navigation ?
I doubt this is a good place to dive. Even without the river pollution, the bottom is muddy and the water is full of silt. If anyone knows different, let me know.
400 yards offshore, mostly buried, wooden
Holgate ( Beach Haven ) Inlet
( north branch of little Egg Inlet )
Little Egg Inlet
( Holgate Inlet at upper right )
recognizable ship-shape, probably sanded-in by beach restoration work
wood wreck
Accounts vary, but most of this ship's immigrant passengers and crew died during the night before rescuers could get to them. It was one of the biggest maritime disasters to date.
The painting above is very bad - the masts and sails are all backwards !
low scattered wooden debris, cattle bones, 200 yards offshore
low scattered wooden debris, 200 yards offshore
Sea Girt Inlet is reduced to an outflow pipe. The water it releases is often so contaminated with goose droppings that it causes beach closings for miles around.
An old disused sewage outlet.
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