It features a full room dedicated to the 1934 Morro Castle disaster, which museum president Deborah Whitcraft coauthored a book on, Inferno at Sea.

There is also an exhibit on the wreck of the USCS Robert J. Walker, a US Coast Survey (a predecessor to NOAA) vessel which sank near Atlantic City and resulted in the deaths of 20 crew.

The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916; the collision of the Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm; the destruction of the USS San Diego; the wreck of the U-869; and other topics are also covered.

It features a research library and has scanned a wide array of documents on shipwrecks, including old records of the United States Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard.

[5] The museum received a donation of two historic wooden sailboats in 2016 of the kind once used for cargo transport and fishing in 19th century New Jersey.