shipwreck

The USS Monitor sank on New Year’s Eve in 1862, in a region off North Carolina known as The USS the Graveyard of the Atlantic, due to an estimated 2,000 shipwrecks. Sixteen sailors were lost in the sinking, historians say.

Sand tiger sharks don’t look like the friendliest bunch. They’ve got “big gnarly teeth and really thick, stout bodies,” as Hap Fatzinger of the North…

Archaeological researchers at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute have identified a shipwreck in the Outer Banks as a World War II assault craft. Locals had…

More than a decade before the sinking of the Titanic, a enger ferry named "SS Stella" sank during a short crossing in the English Channel. The boat…

More than a decade before the sinking of the Titanic, a enger ferry named "SS Stella" sank during a short crossing in the English Channel. The boat…

North Carolina used to have a floating light house. The Diamond Shoal bobbed in the water, warning ships about the dangerous sand shoals off the North…