| In Cape May, New Jersey, at Sunset Beach
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| | Over time, the pebbles are washed, ever
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| on the shore of Delaware Bay you can see
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| | so slowly, past: Trenton, Palmyra, Camden
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| the sunken wreck of the World War One
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| concrete ship, Atlantus. She lies there,
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| | and Philadelphia and finally to the
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| half
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| | broad reaches of the shallow, muddy
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| submerged, a few hundred feet offshore.
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| | Delaware
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| The weather worn wreck is all that
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| | Bay.Here, on the pebble-filled shoreline
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| remains
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| | of Sunset Beach, you can search for Cape
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| of an experimental World War I concrete
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| | May
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| freighter. She was towed there in 1926 to
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| | Diamonds. What you will find are clear
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| | quartz crystals that, after being
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| be intentionally sunk as a breakwater
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| | polished,
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| and protection for the entrance to the
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| | look like diamonds to the untrained eye.
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| then
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| | It is believed that the sunken ship has
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| new, Cape May Canal. During a sudden
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| | become a barrier that diverts the tides
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| storm on Delaware Bay, she broke free of
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| | and currents carrying the Cape May
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| the towboats and was washed into the
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| | Diamonds from the mountains of
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| shallow water a mile or more west of her
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| | Pennsylvania toward the Atlantic Ocean.
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| intended resting place near the Canal.As
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| | In this
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| it happens, this un-natural, man-made
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| | way, the journey of the quartz pebbles
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| barrier is the happy accident that makes
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| | is changed and they are washed ashore
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| Cape May Diamonds available to you. Here
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| | here
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| is what we believe to be the origin of
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| | instead of flowing into the nearby
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| these unique Cape May Diamonds:It has
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| | ocean. Scientists estimate it can take
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| been estimated the journey of a Cape May
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| | over 1,000
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| Diamond begins when some quartz
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| | years for a pebble to move approximately
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| rocks fall from a Pennsylvania mountain
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| | 200 miles, from the mountains of
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| into the Delaware River. This is thought
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| | Pennsylvania to its final resting place
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| to
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| | on Sunset Beach, in Cape May New
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| happen at or near Delaware Water Gap, in
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| | Jersey.The largest Cape May Diamond ever
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| the upper reaches of Delaware River.
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| | found weighed almost eight ounces.
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