Ohio Wreck Site - North Shore

[MASS-Diver]

I heard CADs is running charters to a shallow water scattered wreck site called "Ohio wreck site" somewhere off the North Shore.

Anyone dove there or know anything about it?

 

[large_diver]

I dove that site back in July on a CAD charter (2nd dive site on a 2 tank charter; the first was to Pickett's ledge). It is located just north of Gloucester harbor within 100 yards of the shoreline (although no shore access).

To call it a "wreck" is factually correct, although you will be hard-pressed to find any wreckage. Captain Steve's comment before we went into the water was that you *may* see some wreckage. My buddy Mike and I saw a few items that looked man-made, but we were not sure if they were actual pieces of the wreck -- you definitely had to look HARD.

All that being said, it is a nice site -- very rocky bottom, lots of plant and animal life. Shallow depths running down from 15-20 feet close to shore out to 40-50 farther out, if I remember correctly

 

[MSilvia]

No, but I sent them an email asking for info.

 

[large_diver]

One more note, CAD has a wreck book on board the "big" boat that lists basic information suchs as the type of ship it was, size, date sunk, etc. I don't remember any details about the Ohio, but Steve did dhow us that there is a listing for it in the book.

-Chris

 

[MASS-Diver]

Thanks for the info guys. I was hoping to ask them myself this weekend, but, unless the weather foercast changes it looks bad......