Newark NJ diving?

[dcostanza]

Good morning...

Found out my wife might be transferred to Newark in Aug. for a 6-9 month stint and was curious what diving opportunities abound? Only be visiting on weekends so any charters you might recommend? any quarries or shore diving, heck I'm easy...it could even be a pond?

Thanks a lot...

Don

[Diversauras]

Once you start diving regularly in the ocean it's hard to go back to the quarry :confined:

[dcostanza]

Diversauras,
"Once you start diving regularly in the ocean it's hard to go back to the quarry"

Agreed :D... unfortunately, I'm closer to the quarry (the infamous Gilboa Quarry) on weekends than the ocean when I'm not travelling. Been trying to get the wife to sign off on moving but that's not gonna happen. The only hope I have is she leaves me...and that's not going to happen either:D . Actually carry the gear with me everywhere I/we go, just typically don't go to Newark. Thus my question of who is recommend hangin' out with since it will be new stompin grounds for me.

Best Regards

Don

[SpyderTek]

If you are coming to Jersey and you are looking for shore dives in the ocean I recomend you go south a little from newark and hit the coast at Longbranch. Anywhere from Longbranch south along the coast to Manasquan you can find some nice dives. Even a bunch of wrecks if you know exactly where to look.

Plenty of Charter boats and 6 packs leave out of the Jersey shore also. The most notable and easy to find boat is the Diversion II. You can get alot more information here...

http://www.njscuba.com/

As far as quarry goes Dutch Springs just over the boarder into PA (about 50 minutes from Newark Airport) is THE local diving quarry. Almost ALL NY/NJ/PA check out dives are done here. Lots of underwater sites planted.

Feel free to drop me a line also if you know you're going to be in the area and maye we'll get together and hit a few spots.

Spydertek

[dcostanza]

SpyderTek
Thanks for the info... I'll know more next month and will make contact with you as I have a better idea of how things will be coming together..

Best Regards
Don

[pawrkchic]

Hi there, I live in the Phila. area, and work part time at a dive shop there. If you are into wreck diving, then NJ/NY/PA is the place to be. As mentioned Dutch Springs quarry is nice, lots of neat things to look at, and a great way to get a fresh water rinse on your gear after doing some Jersey diving.

As for Jersey diving, numerous wrecks, with numerous boats to choose from. You have the Seeker, the Diversion II, Bottom Times....etc. The shore diving is fun, but sometimes the vis. is not so good b/c of how close to shore it is. Once you know more of when you'll be up, drop me a line, I can let you know if our shop is running a trip on a boat.......dive on!

[dc4bs]

HI dcostanza,

I live in Hoboken which is just South of the Lincoln Tunnel enterance and about 10-55 minutes from Newark (depending on trafic... :wacko: ).

There is a diveshop in Hoboken you can contact for local dive info.

Hoboken Dive Center: http://www.gohdc.com
I've been in there a few times to buy small items and stuff but I've never been diving with them.

I normaly go down and dive with a friend who lives by Seaside Hights (about 1.3 hours south). It's convenient for me because he lets me keep my gear down there.

[teamheatwave]

3 new PADI Specialties specifically for diving in Newark:

1) Underwater Meth Lab Specialist
2) Submerged Stolen Car Recovery Specialist
3) Underwater Navigation using bodies from Mob hits as landmarks.

Fine print: No people, it's a joke. These are NOT real specialties.

[SueMermaid]

teamheatwave once bubbled...
3 new PADI Specialties specifically for diving in Newark:

1) Underwater Meth Lab Specialist
2) Submerged Stolen Car Recovery Specialist
3) Underwater Navigation using bodies from Mob hits as landmarks.
Oh, Fun-NEE. :)

There's a ton of excellent diving in NJ. You're coming to the right place! :D

Speaking of this area, does anyone ever dive the NYC waterways? I can only imagine the viz, but I have heard unconfirmed rumors that NY Harbor is home to the seedstock of several species of abundant ocean fish. Besides, I'd think it would be really interesting to look at the old seawalls and bridge abutments that probably abound there.

[XJae]

SueMermaid once bubbled...
does anyone ever dive the NYC waterways?
Good question.
I've thought about it myself.
I imagine diving in the Hudson, from Battery Park to Midtown, wouldnt be a good idea.
There is way too much boat/ferry traffic since 9/11.
Although they finally reopened the PATH train from Jersey City to WTC yesterday.
Maybe that will reduce the number of commuter ferries, many of which are converted fishing boats.
Maybe good around the brooklyn bridge.
Should be good around the Statue of Liberty and Govenors Island.

[FallenMatt]

teamheatwave once bubbled...
3 new PADI Specialties specifically for diving in Newark:

1) Underwater Meth Lab Specialist
2) Submerged Stolen Car Recovery Specialist
3) Underwater Navigation using bodies from Mob hits as landmarks.

Fine print: No people, it's a joke. These are NOT real specialties.


eek, Newark is not that bad. I used to live in there for over two years. Yes, it may look scary but a lot of things changed (for example they dynamited most of the projects by the highway 280.

It used to have the third largest little Itally in the states but unfortunatelly in the 60-ies the city did "urban renewal" and destroyed it all and built the infamous projects instead. Fortunatelly most of them are gone now :)

You have bunch of schools in there: Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute of Technology (used to go there), New Jersey School Of Medicine and Dentistry.... SO there is bunch of starving foreign student from all over the world living nearby :) .. mostly Harrison/Kearny though.

They pumped bunch of money into police in there so most of the wierd people moved out of newark to some other towns nearby.

It is mighty close to NYC (30 minute ride on a PATH or NJ Transit train). Great connection hub (Newark International, Railroad links to mostl interesting places in NJ - you can take a ride to Point Pleasant and go to the beach :)

Kearny/Harrison are very itneresting towns with a lot of diversity - almost every new wave of immigration ends up staying there for some time so you can get a lot of influences from all over the world.

Plus, that's where the Sopranos are being filmed :-)

Newark Museum is one with one of the biggest collections in the nations (if i remember coreclty, the biggest collection of tybetan art in the states)

ANyway, sorry for this non-diving related stuff but Newark being kind of wierd looking town (lost half its population since the '50), Nothing bad ever happened to me (living in a "bad" part, being mostly poor and white :) )

One stolen car (friends', recovered), one break in to the car (radio stolen from my '82 volvo), my fault: parked on the street in the dark corner. But no other accidents and i used to walk on the streets on the wierdest times of night (mostly to catch one of the PATH trains to NYC, they go 24/7)

yeah.. i got to do a research projects about Newark in my undergrad times :)

Oh well, miss the town, miss the NYC, Orlando seems like living in a village compared to those times...