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Welcome to NJScuba.net, a website dedicated to exploring the New Jersey / New York region underwater, sometimes referred to as "Wreck Valley". Here you will find information on dive sites, marine biology, artifacts and activities, gear and training, and many other subjects.
Navigating This Website
NJScuba.net has hundreds of pages on thousands of subjects. Navigating all this can be a daunting task.
In Desktop mode, the menu is at the side and stays in place regardless of scrolling. Think of the check-boxes as 'pins' that allow you to show or hide sub-menus. The first 'pin' locks the menu to the page, making it scroll with the rest of the screen. You can also load the table of contents in an always-onscreen sidebar.
In Mobile mode, a similar menu can be accessed from the Menu button at the upper left corner. You can 'pin' the mobile menu to the page and make it scroll, if your display is really small.
The Page Mode button lets you switch between modes manually and override the site's default mode for your device. The Page Mode button is always in the menu, so you can choose whichever mode you prefer. Desktop mode works great on a tablet, but I do not recommend it for a phone.
You can even load the sidebar and then switch to Mobile mode, which returns the site almost to the original style and layout it started with over 20 years ago ! That's quite a bit of customization you can do, so have it the way you want it.
video courtesy of Dan Crowell, DanCrowell.com
Where to Start ? |
Try the Top 40 page to see where everyone else is going.
Dive Sites
Scene on the Mohawk
- Andrea Doria - the 'Mount Everest' of shipwreck diving
- SS Delaware - the most-dived shipwreck on the NJ coast
- Hankins Wreck - some nice photos of a typical NJ dive site
- SS Mohawk - some more photos of a different sort of shipwreck
- Stolt Dagali - one of the most popular dive sites in the region
- San Diego & Oregon - Long Island's premiere diving shipwrecks
Artificial Reefs
'Redbird' Subway Cars
- Artificial Reef Ecology - reprinted from New Jersey Outdoors
- Sea Girt | Shark River | Atlantic City | Cape May
- New Jersey Reef Program Overview
- USS Algol - one of the biggest artificial reefs in the world !
- Cranford ferry - another reef, with a long and interesting history
- Dutch Springs - where you will likely get certified
Marine Biology
A colorful Sea Raven
- Classification - of everything
- Jellyfish - the second highest-traffic page in the entire website
- Plant-like animals - take a look, you'll see what I mean
- Water, bottom and coastal composition
- Ocean Bottom fishes - check out the Robins and the Ravens
Artifacts & Shipwrecks
Glassware from a shipwreck
- Anatomy of a Shipwreck - and steel wrecks too
- Commercial Fishing Vessels - all about them
- Barges & Sailing Ships - long-lost details
- Portholes - what's all the fuss about ?
- Polymer materials - the stuff your dive gear is made of
Dive Gear & Training
Experienced advice on dive gear and training for the Northeast
- Why Dive in New Jersey - Beneath the Waves
- Dive Training & Diving Conditions - this ain't the Caribbean
- Spearfishing and Catching lobsters - need I say more
- Digital U/W Photography - another popular page
- Tanks - specs, advantages, disadvantages
Once you find a subject that interests you, just dive right in. Everything is cross-linked with everything else, across all subjects, so you never know what you might find, no matter where you start.
Links & Stuff |
Cozumel - my favorite place in the tropics- Dan Crowell Digital Media Productions
- NJ Artificial Reef Program
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This website was approved by Rocky.
Rest in peace, little buddy.