Where do old subway cars go when they do? The ocean off the coast of Delaware, of course. On Friday, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control added 44 more old subway cars to its extensive artificial reef off of the Delmarva coast. This latest group of cars bring the total size of the Redbird Reef to 934 old trains. It is 1.3 square nautical miles in size and is located 16 miles off of the coast. According to the Delaware DNREC, 13,000 anglers a year visit New York’s old rolling stock, and the site has become a haven for marine life.
Delware adds 44 more cars to Redbird Reef
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I wonder if they let people scuba dive through them–that would be quite an experience.
I wanted to know the same thing. You can fish there, but can you dive?
There was a website that showed several diving excursions to the redbirds (can’t remember the site now). I don’t think it’s for recreational divers though since the cars are fairly deep in the Atlantic.
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They do run recreational diver trips to the site but it’s a wreck dive with low vis so it’s not a beginner’s dive trip. They sit in about 90 feet of water with a lot of other decommissioned vessels a great trip if you can find a dive shop to take you. Surface Interval has closed so if anyone knows or has a boat to get there I’m willing to pay.