To the Editor:
On Aug. 21 and 22, I was visiting my good friends Laura and Dick Bartlett, who have a home adjacent to the beach at 18th Street in Barnegat Light. Early in the morning of Friday, Aug. 22, I took a walk out to the beach while Dick and Laura were still sleeping. Besides enjoying the view of the ocean and the rough waves, my main goal was to take a picture of the mast of the shipwrecked Sea King in the ocean off 11th Street and send it to my oldest daughter.
I reached the mast shortly before 8:30 a.m., where it was projecting out of the surf.
October 13, 2025
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