View marine life as a shipwreck diver at the New Jersey Maritime Museum

Dive into the ocean while keeping dry at the “Marine Life: Above and Below East Coast Shipwrecks” presentation held at the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven on Friday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. The hour-long seminar, led by museum curator and long-time diver Bart Malone, will take participants on a journey under the sea using a combination of still photos and short video clips of different shipwrecks along the coast captured by Malone and other contributing divers throughout the years.

Photo via USA Today
Divers explore a sidewheel iron steamer that
sank after a collision near Atlantic City in 1860.

The public “only know what’s out there because of what they hear. Now the public can kind of see what myself and four or five other divers see when we’re diving these wrecks,” said Malone, who has been diving shipwrecks for 42 years and scuba diving for 54 years.

Sharks, skates, horseshoe crabs and flounder are just some of the marine life that participants will witness in the footage, Malone specified.

Questions from the public are welcome, and light refreshments, including beer, wine and cheese, will be provided.

A donation in lieu of an admission fee is requested.

Registration is required. To reserve a spot, call the museum at 609-492-0202.

For more information, visit njmaritimemuseum.org.

— Kelley Anne Essinger


This article was published in The SandPaper.