3 wrecks off East LI

[SharkBaitDiving]

I dove this site last Friday with some friends from PA. Found all 3 rather easily. I also marked all 3 with a 6-8" green noodle on a green line about 6' underwater.

[Diver1111]

Here are some sonar shots of the wreck that is the most intact of the three in Duck Trap Cove-about 80 feet out from the pier. If you are looking from the water at the pier and shore it is straight out about 100 feet from the right side of the pier not the left/southern end.

I tried to get in to scan the others but as I could not tow the sonar as usual due to super shallow water I used a bow mount (hung from the bow); However due to changing depths, big piles of rocks and other terrain issues causing issues they are not worth posting. Will try again later to get the others.

This one wreck has clear ribbing in the sonar image that as I previously posted are 4 feet on center. I always thought it was 80 feet long +- and it seems that is the case if you count the ribs or look at the measurement I took using the measurement tool in the sonar software.

The center piece of the vessel frame-the keel rib if that's what you want to call it-as I recall is huge; hand cut and very long-quite a piece of wood working. If any divers go to this wreck please get some good photos of this keel piece-it's a gem worth seeing.

Please note that if your computer monitor is not high resolution any sonar images I post may not be as clear as I see on mine, which is at 1900.

My thanks again to Tim Lawton for giving me this information; He found them in the 1980's.

[Island-Ho]

The steamer hull in shallow water in Duck Trap Cove is the remains of the Mohawk, which burned in the boathouse in 1906. My brother and I dove on the wreck in the late 60's and recovered a number of items including brass gauges, oil lamps, flag staff, and an anchor. The yacht was owned by Dr. F. E. Greene, and the items were returned to the family of Dr. Greene, who owned Windermere Estate and most of the end of Long Island.
RattlesnakeGal posted a picture of the Mohawk here: http://s965.photobucket.com/user/Rat...l?t=1303941181
When we dove on the wreck the remains of the small boathouse in the left corner of the picture were still there, although flat on the ground. This was not the Greene's boathouse.

[DickR]

Originally Posted by Island-Ho

The steamer hull in shallow water in Duck Trap Cove is the remains of the Mohawk, which burned in the boathouse in 1906. My brother and I dove on the wreck in the late 60's and recovered a number of items including brass gauges, oil lamps, flag staff, and an anchor. The yacht was owned by Dr. F. E. Greene, and the items were returned to the family of Dr. Greene, who owned Windermere Estate and most of the end of Long Island.

Thanks for posting this, which I stumbled on by chance. We own what we believe was the last of the Greene family holdings on LI, just west of light 64 on the NE side of LI, purchased from the Greene family descendants in 1992. It's nice to hear about things related to the history of the property.

[Diver1111]

I dove this wreck again to film it.

Someone put a foam floaty-thing on the end of a line from the wreck which you can see clearly down about 10 feet under water.

I wish with these videos I could get clearer images but anyone filming anything is subject to water conditions. I used my magenta filter to try and deal with the lime green effect of losing the red light as you descend.

This wreck has an impressive piece of timber where a keel would be that is in the center of the structure (appears clearly on the sonar image) , which to me is a large barge. I measured it again today and came back with it at about 80 feet long, as before.



http://youtu.be/rR1bShIly8g

[Tired of Waiting]

Dive,

The video says removed my user if clicked as does the link.


ToW

[Diver1111]

I removed it today because while uploading to YouTube the site offered to "clean up" or "improve" the video quality which I had it do; I looked at it later and it made a real mess of the video.

I deleted it and uploaded the original again w/o the changes YouTube made, which is here:



http://youtu.be/m5P_-I0cKxs

[Island-Ho]

That's not the Mohawk which is closer to shore in about 20 feet. We never extended our search out to the depth that you found the barge in.