Concrete Shipwreck
11/03
I was a bit disappointed. There's not much of it left above
water.
The ship, S.S. Atlantus, was an experiment from WWI. After a few trips across
the Atlantic to bring soldiers back home, the concrete ship proved to be near-useless
(it was concrete, afterall). The ship was eventually sold to a man
who had hoped to make it into a ferry between DE & NJ. During a storm
in '26 the Atlantus got loose and became stuck just off Sunset Beach. They
tried freeing her, but once again we're talking about concrete here. So she's
been there ever since. What you're looking at is actually the ship's center;
over the decades she's split in 2. I was amazed to see old photos of nearly
the entire ship, still intact, above water. Fishermen and curiosity seekers
would row or swim out to her often. She briefly had a sign for boat insurance
on her as well.
Who knows how much longer she has before she completely disappears beneath
the waves.
