No problem sharing.
They only reason that I was going to PM MSTUDLEY was because he was doing all the work of building the Google Earth file. I just figured it would be neat to have the numbers made known that way.
Here's one:
The COLBROOK @ N42 02.314 W70 30.030
160fsw
This wreck first piqued my interest when I read about it in Donald Ferris' book
Exploring the waters of Cape Cod many years ago. There are LORAN coordinates in Mr. Ferris' book but no GPS #'s. Several weeks ago my dive partners and I headed out to locate the wreck using a LORAN unit that I installed during the winter. Fortunately Mr. Ferris provided accurate TD's and we found her in short order. We did not dive her that day as the weather was a bit too crappy for our liking to be doing a fairly deep dive. I wanted to know more about this wreck so I asked around.
Heather Knowles of
Northern Atlantic Dive Expeditions was gracious enough to share this information with me in an e-mail on Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:31 AM.
"The COLEBROOK was originally thought to be the June K, but was later identified to be the Colebrook. The June K is a distinct wreck and is to the west of the Colebrook -- it was a wood tug -- low lying debris now, not much there. The Colebrook is a 55-foot long intact steel tug. It sits upright in about 150 feet of water with some good relief. It sank while towing a deck scow barge when it began taking on water in the engine room. Eric Takakjian used to dive it years ago when he ran the Grey Eagle. I have not been on it but have seen video -- vis can be very good there, but it can also be very dark. Have fun and let us know what the present condition of the wreck is."
-Heather Knowles
She was right on with her description of the wreck! However, the visibility was low at about 8 feet or so. It was over 40 until we got below 120fsw then it closed in dramatically. We had good light penetration but there was a lot of particulate matter in the water. The wreck is still intact and upright with some possible penetration into the wheelhouse, which is SMALL, as is the whole wreck. Its diminutive size makes it a difficult target to hook which is how we got on the wreck knowing that it was steel and not wood and thus we would not damage it with our smallish boat. On the 3rd try we hooked a hunk of net balled under the stem of the vessel. Next time we will drop a shot line and tie in onto the "H" bitt aft of the Wheelhouse. It is just a bit deeper than 150 as I hit 159fsw while crawling in the washout and scraping the screw to see what it is made of.
It is Bronze.
Regards,
Dennis
Please Note: I have seen the name of the wreck spelled two different ways, both as the
COLBROOK and
COLEBROOK. Donald Ferris wrote COLBROOK and Heather wrote COL
EBROOK. I do not know which is correct:huh:. But hey, what's one letter among friends
!
I saw him once when I was in B&M one day although I didn't talk to him at all... it's weird, I feel like I know him a little already since I've read about 8 of his books.
