Hudson River Dive - Pier 42 Piling Field

Chris Anderson of The River Project dives in the Pier 42 piling field at Leroy St. in Manhattan. He is doing a biodiversity and habitat assessment of the area and checking piling integrity for supporting the weight of a solar-powered fish-attracting device. The dive was an hour long at high slack tide and visibility went from 24 inches at the beginning to 12" at the end of the dive. Current increased as well.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hudson
• River
• scuba
• diving
• dive

[tricoti2]

I saw live oysters, red algae in the Ceramium family, Grass shrimp, Blue mussels, Mud crabs. We've gotten 49 species of fish in the last 10 years at The River Project.

[elkaba100]

Fascinating but rather scary. What else is down there?

[annalee77]

Whoa who's that weird guy in the mask? He's cool.