"World War Two Ship and Submarine Wrecks Preserved..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Sep 2016 1:05 p.m. PST |
… Off the North Carolina Coast. "They lay silent, at rest on the frigid, dim ocean floor. For the first time, searchers have swept the Atlantic Ocean graveyard, the location of some of the battles fought near the U.S. mainland during the Second World War. In 1942, German and Allied navies fought in the Battle of the Atlantic in what David Alberg, spokesman for NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary describes as possibly the largest battlefield in human history. The war area went from the north and south Atlantic, from southern Africa to Iceland where German submarines sank a multitude of Allied ships. Some skirmishes occurred within a few miles of North Carolina's Outer Banks. A NOAA submersible for the past few weeks has taken a closer look at the wreckage of the Allied Bluefields freighter and the German submarine U-576. The two vessels are under 750 feet of ocean water since 1942 and weren't spotted by sonar until two years ago…"
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| Private Matter | 22 Sep 2016 6:32 p.m. PST |
There are some great dives off the coast. This is near where I live. |
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goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.
