/tags/shipwreck shipwreck en-US Copyright Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:39:45 GMT /news/2022-06-06/historic-civil-war-ship-sunk-off-nc-coast-in-astounding-shape-experts-say 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. Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:39:45 GMT /news/2022-06-06/historic-civil-war-ship-sunk-off-nc-coast-in-astounding-shape-experts-say Associated Press /science-technology/2019-04-24/sand-tiger-sharks-loyal-to-certain-shipwrecks-study-finds 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… Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:14:07 GMT /science-technology/2019-04-24/sand-tiger-sharks-loyal-to-certain-shipwrecks-study-finds Laura Pellicer /news/2017-10-24/outer-banks-shipwreck-identified-as-wwii-troop-transport 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… Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:50:10 GMT /news/2017-10-24/outer-banks-shipwreck-identified-as-wwii-troop-transport Liz Schlemmer /show/the-state-of-things/2016-08-26/i-wish-you-a-boat 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… Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:35:22 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2016-08-26/i-wish-you-a-boat Anita Rao, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2016-08-26/i-wish-you-a-boat 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… Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:35:22 GMT /arts-culture/2016-08-26/i-wish-you-a-boat Anita Rao, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2014-10-09/researchers-dive-to-solve-the-mysteries-of-the-diamond-shoal 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… Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:47:03 GMT /arts-culture/2014-10-09/researchers-dive-to-solve-the-mysteries-of-the-diamond-shoal Eric Hodge