Dive The Wreck of the San Diego on the RV Garloo!

This event is FULL, but to get on the waiting list in case of any last-minute cancellations, contact Steve Lombardo (email or phone: 718-702-8623).

Who's going:

Steve Lombardo
Patrick Kearns
Timothy Dluhos
Mike Strickland
Scott Dellaperuta
Chuck Levesque
Bryan Stack
Antonio Simonini
David Rosenthal
Eric Escobar
Vincent Maida
Roger Williams

Important Notes:

• Divers may arrive and sleep on the boat the night before. Departure time is 6:00 a.m. Saturday morning.
  
• This is a 2-tank dive, so bring 2 tanks - as well as all other dive gear you will need. Pony bottles and reels recommended but not required.
  
• Make sure to pack lots of drinking water and some snacks and sandwiches.
  
• Steve Lombardo (718-702-8623) is the Oceanblue Divers organizer and contact for this dive trip.
  

Join Oceanblue Divers on our expedition to the USS San Diego. We will be diving off the great dive boat RV Garloo out of Captree, Long Island. Departure time is 6:00 AM on Saturday June 14, 2008. This wreck is alive with history and a great way to spend Flag Day 2008.

The San Diego was an US Armored Cruiser, as long as a 50-story building. It sank in 1918 when it hit a mine placed by a German U-Boat off of Fire Island. There is a century of history and an abundance of marine life on this ship. There are still many artifacts to be examined in place on this protected wreck (no taking allowed). The wreck is intact, but collapsing. It is upside down. The keel is in 65 feet of water and you hit the sand at 110 feet.

New Oceanblue Divers member author David Rosenthal wrote the passage below:

Her six-inch guns still point out from the ship, an impressive sight. Both outside the ship and within her collapsing corridors live sea anemones, ling, lobsters, the occasional small shark and the spirits of courageous young sailors. A boot lies out on the sand. The boot is embossed with the letters U.S.M.C. on the bottom. The man who wore it may have been 18 years old, missing his girlfriend and family as the great ship projected US Naval might throughout the world in the early twentieth century. Maybe he was even from the New York area. How ironic that such a great warship should meet such an ignominious end so close to the shores it was to defend!

David has a new book out SCUBA Diving the Wrecks and Shores of Long Island, NY. For more information on diving the USS San Diego, and other Long Island wrecks take a look at Davids book. The book has thirteen stories just about the San Diego. Get more info at: www.thewharvesproject.org

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Oceanblue Divers
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New York, NY 10009-1153