Certainly not gin clear, but under the right conditions as clear as many
of the sites scuba divers visit.

The East River has been a very active waterway for a long time and is
certainly littered with "unfound" wrecks. Whether any are worth finding
is another question.

A lot of rail and subway cars have been dumped, I doubt in the East
River because it is fairly shallow, unless they were used as fill along
the banks.

It's not significant because there are a lot of junkies upstream.

Technically feasible with some designs (remove the second stage and
discard the mask) but not a practical thing. Simplest alternative is a
bailout bottle with constant flow into the mask. It is assumed that by
the time you graduaate to ffm, you know how to manage yer gas supply.

Because the East River was the site of America's first scuba diving and
the site of America's first scuba death. In 1828 or shortly after,
Charles Condert fabricated a SCUBA tank from four feet of six inch
copper tubing. Using a compressor made from a gun barrel, he pumped
about ten cubic feet into the tank. From a small manual valve at the
tank, a tube ran under a hip-length rubberized fabric tunic into the
attached hood, made of the same material. Condert made many dives with
this gear in the East River, descending and ascending on a shot line to
twenty feet. On his last dive, in August of 1832, Charles Condert died.
My someday-to-be-published book presents a new theory on the cause of
his death.

Albanians are notoriously stupid.

esg

 The East River, if you didn't know, is what makes Long Island an island.

 A bunch of us went diving in Jamaica Bay, not far away, and it was
surprisingly clear.

 I don't have a factual answer for that, but based on dates (one of our
oldest, largest, and most popular ports), colonial population centers and
the geography (extensive shoreline) I bet there are thousands.

 The only railcars I know of that were intentionally dumped, were subway
cars off the coast (and mostly New Jersey), for sport fishing and artificial
reefs.

 All the modern (i.e.- 19th century) rail traffic travels in
tunnels -under- the East River.

 The reg fits in the mask sans rubber mouth piece- buddy breathing wouldn't
be hard if you practiced.

 To see what civilization is like?

 Because you're drawn to all things American by angst.

 Hint: it's TV.

 Or it could be that Albanians are notoriously stupid.

Not ever;.. Vis is ~ 2 feet; -

are there still

If you include the Shopping carts, yes. It has a Very strong current.
& is " Commercial Diver Only " territory.

did they dump a lot of rail cars

Probably not, as they would be a navigation hazard; - regular cars..
Probably a few.

was the " finding a syringe is not significant as their is a

- finding a syringe? in 2 foot Vis with 6 Knot Currents? Yer Dreaming!

if you are wearing the full face equipment

Can't. As I understand it, theres one Comm. Guy, One Air tender guy &
then The Diver..

- Television . . . .