CAPTAIN SINBAD
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This is listed as one of the dives in Ocean City MD. Has anyone been on this wreck? If anyone could give me a little background, history and present condition it would be great.
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Gary Gentile's book will give you the official. Here is the condensed version. Broke down steel vessel that is turtled. Wrekage is continuos and easy to navigate. Lies on a hard sand bottom in an area known for good vis and warmer temps in 80fsw in a hole under a plate. It is popular with bug hunters, spearos, and new divers. It is called the screw wreck cause the giant prop is still intact and large and in charge. Overall a great dive and a good time.
Who are you looking to dive with?
Eric
IMHO the only game in town is o.c. diver. It is a 6 pack set up for comfort, berths, has technical diving available, and goes alot of really cool places that other boats do not have numbers for. Plus it's cheaper. It's a win/win.
I am a fixture on her. We need some more players in the 100 fsw or less if you are interested. The screw wreck will prolly be listed on the schedule some where this season. There will also be DD days throughout the summer on Saturdays that are my choice, 100fsw. We go at least 2wice.
The website is ocdiver.com
Eric
The SCREW Wreck aka: "Lightship Wreck" is an awesome dive! Defiantly not one to miss. Like the Marine Electric and as Eric said, the wreck usually holds good viz and warmer temps. On one of our dives there last season we had probably 70+ feet of viz, you could see the bottom of the dive boat from the wreck. There is a large section of wreckage that consist of boilers, steel plates and other debris along with at least one large propeller. (I've been told that there is another but haven't seen it for myself).. That is usually where we hook in.. There is another section of the wreck a couple hundred feet North of the main wreckage pile that you can get too with a long reel if you have the air and some bottom time. If you are spearfishing or lobster hunting it is a great dinner spot with some huge tog that like to hide under the deck plates that are exposed along the bottom.
Its a pretty remote site about a 2 hour run (for us on OC Dive Boat) SE from Ocean City Inlet. Well worth the trip.