Dive Charter to the wreck of the Arundo August 2, 2025

• Date: August 2, 2025
  
• Depth: 110-140'
• Dive Boat: Gypsy Blood
• Max Divers: 14
• 2 Dives
• Lunch Served: No
• Departing from (Use for GPS) 1 Saint Louis Ave, Point Pleasant Beach NJ 08742
• Departure Time: 7:00am sharp

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Scubadelphia is limited to a specific amount divers per charter. Charters do fill up quickly, first come first serve policy. Reservations require full payment for your charter.

Once you reserve a space you are responsible for the full price of the charter, unless the space can be filled.

* Divers must be Advanced Open Water Certified & must carry a redundant air source.
* Cold water experience required
* Solo Diving is permitted for Recreational Diving only if you hold the proper certification.


Special Note To Divers - Times listed are actual departure times. Hint Hint, to reduce unnecessary stress and anxiety before diving, arrive a half-hour to forty-five minutes prior to departure. If not, the boat will leave without you! Enjoy your dives!!!!

ARUNDO
Type:
shipwreck, freighter, Netherlands
Built:
1930, New Castle England, as Petersfield
Specs:
( 412 x 55 ft ) 5163 gross tons, 43 crew
Sunk:
Tuesday April 28, 1942
torpedoed by U-136 - 6 casualties
Depth:
140 ft max; 110 ft min; 125 ft typical

In a daring shallow water attack, a single torpedo from the U-136 tore open the starboard side of the Arundo just below the bridge and blew off the hold covers. The stricken ship heeled over to starboard and sank in only five minutes. Survivors of the attack were soon picked up by nearby vessels, but her cargo of war materiel outward bound for the campaign in North Africa
never made it. That cargo included jeeps, big 10-wheeled army trucks, 2 locomotives, and 5000 cases of Canadian beer. After the war the Arundo was wire dragged and otherwise demolished, and her exact location was lost. There are several other wrecks in close proximity which have all gone under the name Arundo until the true Arundo was finally re-identified.

What remains of the real Arundo is more a vast debris field than a ship, although some parts are still tall and almost recognizable. The highest parts near the bow are at about 110 ft, but the bulk of the wreck is at 120-130 ft, and the stern goes down to 140 ft at the sand. This is not a dive for the faint-hearted. You can expect more advanced conditions cold, dark & silty because it is in in the Mud Hole. The depth of this site is going to require a considerably higher level of experience and equipment than most others, and should only be attempted by those
who are realistically prepared.

Everywhere there are large truck tires, some still mounted in eight wheel sets to double-axle truck differentials, others crated together or just lying around. Much other debris is scattered all over, and in many places the walls of the hull still stand high out of the sand. One of the locomotives lies off the wreck in the sand; the other resembles a overly long, narrow boiler. Most of the parts having rusted away. At right is a drive wheel. There is a seemingly never-ending supply of unbroken but rather ordinary one quart clear glass beer bottles for collectors of such things. These
bottles are filled with the foulest looking black muck. In fact, every part of this wreck seems to be covered in filth and sediment ( as if there is such a thing as a clean wreck ! ) and the overall conditions are rather dark and dreary, even on a good day.