current projects at the new jersey shipwreck museum

We are restored a United States Coast Guard beach cart which dates to the 1930's. A direct descendant of the carts used by the United States Life-saving Service (USLSS), these carts were used to haul life-saving equipment along the beach during near-shore disasters in order to effect a rescue. Our cart was scraped, painted and have its tires replaced.

While this project is completed, future work on our Monomoy will include adding a mast, sail and rudder. This will involve a trip to the Cape May Maritime Museum where we will photograph, measure and discuss with the staff how these parts were fabricated. No plans of these parts exist, but our record will benefit our own other Monomoy Pulling Boat restoration projects.

Our Diving Demonstration Tank is sure to be the center of attention in our museum. In it we will be able to demonstrate the technology we use to explore shipwrecks and recover artifacts necessary to make an identification. We will also be able to demonstrate the principles and physics of diving, in addition to building and operating small robot-like machines called ROVs.