Tuesday, Nov 4, 2014 •
Work on a coastal steel wall to protect one of the area's hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy was put on hold after a 19th century shipwreck was discovered 25 feet below the sand. NBC's Brian Thompson is in Brick Township, Ocean County with more.
Work on a coastal steel wall to protect one of the areas hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy has come to a standstill after the discovery of a 19th-century shipwreck about 25 feet underneath the sand.
Mayor John G. Ducey said workers using a specialized drill struck the relic last week. They were doing excavating work for the 3.5-mile long structure, which is intended to shield Route 35 and oceanfront homes in Mantoloking and Brick on the northern barrier island from the catastrophic impact of a future major hurricane or nor'easter comparable to the Oct. 29, 2012, disaster.
"They hit something with the machine," Ducey told the Asbury Park Press. "The machine broke and they brought in a second machine and that one broke too, so then they decided 'let's see what this is,' and it was a shipwreck."
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