Survey of various NOAA Automated Wrecks and Obstructions off Bridgeport Connecticut using an Edgetech 4125 Side Scan Sonar System.

November 12, 2015

November of 2014 our team spent a day scanning a number of shipwrecks off of Bridgeport Connecticut.  We scanned nine NOAA Automated Wrecks and Obstructions Information System (AWOIS) wrecks.  Also, while transiting from one wreck to another with the towfish in the water we stumbled across a new shipwreck.  Diver investigation showed it to be a very old unidentified coal barge.

 This is the New wreck

Target 2, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025164310, Ping 59552a

 

 AWOIS XXXX

AWOIS Wreck, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025160412, Ping 22561, Mosaic, a

 

Washington, AWOIS 12214 & 12207

Washington, AWOIS 12214 & 12207, 10-25-2014, 900kHz, 20141025135240, Ping 20542

 

 AWOIS 12930

AWOIS 12930, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025175537, Ping 110016

 

AWOIS 12919

AWOIS 12919, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025174153, Ping 103275

 

AWOIS 12911
(Operator error, accidental range change, but the majority of the wreck is there.)

AWOIS 12911, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025181025, Ping 118183

 

AWOIS 1780

AWOIS 1780, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025172720, Ping 87303

 

AWOIS 1797

AWOIS 1797, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025150043, Ping 77897

 

AWOIS 6881

AWOIS 6881, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025183611, Ping 13789

 

AWOIS 6917

AWOIS 6917, 10-25-2014. 900kHz, 20141025171139, Ping 81219