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CEDAR BEACH & JETTIES
DIRECTIONS:
(Mount Sinai, Suffolk County)
Take the Long
Island Expressway to Exit 63 North, Patchogue Road. Drive
north to
the end and make a right. Bear left on Echo Avenue; then make a left
onto Pipe Stave Hollow Road. Take this to the end and make a left on
Harbor Beach Road to the end. You will enter a large parking lot;
drive through to a
small dirt parking lot
on the right, or you can continue to the turn around, drop
off your dive gear, then park.
CONDITIONS:
Diving can be done
directly off the beach where clear calm water can usually be
found.
This is a good site for basic divers to experience aquatic life,
such as fluke, flounder, and spider crabs. An occasional lobster can
be found living in one of the car tires
found off the beach.
The
other options for the more experienced divers are either of the two
jetties. The only diving found on
the east jetty is out by the point. Here, there are many
rocks to search between for
lobsters. I think all divers would enjoy this jetty,
but the west jetty is by far the
better of the two. On it are an abundant supply of lobsters,
plus the remains of at least two small wrecks. Both were sunk during
the hurricane of 1985. Although not too much wreckage will be found,
divers will still see debris
scattered in and amongst the rocks on the west side of the
west jetty.
A good deal of brass artifacts from these wrecks can still be
recovered.
Always be cautious
when swimming to the west jetty, as the current can be very
strong
through this inlet.
When possible I
prefer to use an underwater propulsion
unit.
Back in 1986,
after a winter storm, Bill Campbell and I noticed a sailboat had
drifted onto the west jetty's rocks. The next day when Bill and I
were ready to dive it, the wreck was
gone. After we had navigated across the inlet, the only
trace we found was
red paint and some scattered wreckage on the east side of
the west
jetty. The current must have carried the main wreck away. On the
same
dive, Bill and I took a look on the west side of the
west jetty and found another
wreck. This one
was a twin-engine cabin cruiser. This wreck was scattered
amongst
the jetty's rocks and half buried in the sand next to the jetty.
During one dive
here I noticed a four-wheel-drive vehicle on the inlet's west
side.
Finding access on the west side, as these four-wheel-drive vehicles
have done, would eliminate the grueling swim across the inlet.
Divers should
always fly a dive flag here and stay aware of the
heavy boat traffic.
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