Getting to the bottom of our shipwreck legends

The Graveyard of the Atlantic; shipwrecks are depicted as bright dots in this interactive exhibit at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. (Courtesy: Brian Tress)

By Brian Tress | Outer Banks Voice

If you believe the legends, the Outer Banks – with thousands of shipwrecks off its lengthy coastline – is a swirling vortex of supernational activity. Over the centuries, death was commonplace along the swath of ocean stretching primarily from the northern Outer Banks to Beaufort Inlet, now called the Graveyard of the Atlantic. There are many reasons why so many ships met their end here: a coastline that juts way out into the Atlantic, shifting sandbars under the surface, war, human error, plundering pirates, hurricanes and nor’easters to name a

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