WRECK OF THE GWENDOLYN STEERS -SQUALUS MARINE DIVERS
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Another short video of The Wreck of the Gwendolyn Steers. A big old tugboat that sank off of Northport NY on the north shore of Long Island Sound. Join us for another fun dive!
CORRECTION:THIS WRECK IS LOCATED IN HUNTINGTON BAY.
Cool video. I’m Scott Dowling, Captain Dickman was my grandfather. My mom Joan is his middle daughter. I grew up in Commack. I was only 14 months old when the boat went down.
Took up diving when I was in college with a more experienced friend of mine. Didn’t really do too much wreck diving, but we did do this one.
For some reason those steps always stood out in my mind. That, and the utter and complete lack of disability, that is so characteristic of diving in LI sound.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Just watched again Dennis... Today is 61 years since the dinking. Great video
I was a boy on LI when the Steers iced up and overturned. I remember it was an extremely cold day, and the tug was cruising either towards, or around, Huntington Harbor (Northport is so close). I recall a boy was watching the tug out his parents front window and saw the tug having a hard time, he turned to look at something and when he looked up at the tug again, it was gone. Sank like a brick. If recollection serves me, Gwendolynn Steers was a steam tug converted to Diesel. She's a very shallow dive.
The water is even greener and murkier than I remember from the early 60's. L.I.Sound could use a good flushing!
Great video.
I was a boy on LI not far from there. I remember when that happened; wondering if that was the ice storm that was so fierce I could ice skate across our lawn, as the temperature shift was so extreme. I’m sure I fished around it in later years but we didn’t have depth finders.
What a great video! I dove the Gwendoline Steers on Friday (10-10-14) and man oh man, Capt Dennis had great vis when he shot this video. :-) Thanks for providing great reference for this piece of history in the LI sound! Btw, my dive computer recorded 60ft at the bow in the sand...
I'm guessing the plow anchor and the grappling hook paid for the fuel? I enjoyed your narration - as always.
Squalus Marine - Love your videos gentleman ... but ...
This is no ordinary wreck. You made no mention of the heartbreaking tragedy of this ship. Capt. Herbert Dickman and his crew of 8 men were caught in a freezing storm in late December 1962. The tug took on an ice build up and sunk in the heavy seas.
All hands were lost. A tragedy of epic proportions.
Here's a photo of the GWENDOLINE STEERS, some of her crew & a folk song about her and her men:
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Yes we know now. We had no knowledge of the history of this wreck until after we filmed it. When we dove it we only knew she was an intact tug. Its got a considerable history not to mention the tragedy. Thanks for the feedback.
Is vis always that bad at that site? or just a murky day?