Friday July 28, 2000 : A group of us boarded the Surface Interval out of Indian River Inlet, DE for a later-than-usual departure at 9:00 am (ahhh...how nice it is to sleep-in a bit :-) ). Today's trip would take us out to the Inner Fenwick Shoals (2 unknown overlapping wrecks...but rumor has it that they are the wrecks of the Thresham and the Brinkburn) and to the Outer Fenwick Shoals (unknown wrecks at this site). Both of these locations are very similar in character, with the wrecks being very broken-up and having very large boilers rising up from the rest of the ship remains. The wrecks at both of these sites are covered with large yellow and orange encrusting sponges along with large "carpets" of mussels (and hence the starfish abound, too!). Today, most of the fish life on the wrecks consisted of juvenile seabass and tautog. I also saw a few searobins out in the sand. On previous trips out to the Inner Shoals, I've also seen flounder, angelsharks, guitarfish, and stingrays out in the sand surrounding the wrecks. Sometimes tropicals such as triggerfish and butterflyfish can be seen on the wrecks depending if water from the Gulf Stream comes in close to shore. Depth on the Inner Shoals ranges between 25 and 35 feet, and on the Outer Fenwick Shoals the depth is slightly shallower at about 25 feet. Because of this, a great amount of bottom time is afforded, especially if you are "good" with air consumption. Today, on both wrecks, the visibility was 10 to 15 feet. The decreased viz was probably due to the presence of flocculated organic matter, or "snow" as some divers call it, in the water. Many times surge can be a problem on these wrecks, which can cause some divers to become seasick. Today was no exception, although I have seen worse days.