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The USS Monitor sank on New Year鈥檚 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.
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Sand tiger sharks don鈥檛 look like the friendliest bunch. They鈥檝e got 鈥渂ig gnarly teeth and really thick, stout bodies,鈥 as Hap Fatzinger of the North鈥
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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鈥
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More than a decade before the sinking of the Titanic, a passenger ferry named "SS Stella" sank during a short crossing in the English Channel. The boat鈥
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More than a decade before the sinking of the Titanic, a passenger ferry named "SS Stella" sank during a short crossing in the English Channel. The boat鈥
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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鈥