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Fire Island National Seashore
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This park extends along the southern coast of Long Island within an hours drive of New York City. Among the many shipwrecks documented to have occurred in this area is the SS Savannah, the first ship to make a steam-assisted crossing of the Atlantic. It came to grief in this area in 1821. The German steamer Gluckauf, wrecked here in 1893. Further offshore and well beyond NPS boundaries is the Andrea Doria,, a major attraction to advanced recreational or technical divers. SRC activity in the area began in the early 1980s and has continued off and on to the present. Except for brief entries in Underwater Wonders of the National Parks put out by SRC in 1998, results of SRC operations here are primarily in the form of internal reports for agency managers. |
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| - May 1998 World Geoscience, working with NUMA, conducted an airborne mag survey searching for the Savannah.
- September 1987 An SRC reconnaissance team headed by Larry Murphy conducted a diving and instrument assessment of several historic wreck sites in the park.
- October 1982 The National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) financed by novelist Clive Cussler searched portions of the Atlantic side of the island with a magnetometer for the Savannah but found no promising anomalies.
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Fire Island National Seashore
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