From the September 6, 2021, Independent Tribune "Shipwrecks can go 'missing' off Outer Banks. Here's why NOAA team went hunting for 13" by Mark Price of the Charlotte Observer.
They call it the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of North Carolina. Ships sink, but do they stay where they sank? That's what a team set off to see recently.
The fact is, historic shipwrecks can move and appear to go missing at times.
With this in mind, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sent an expedition to check on the status of 13 known shipwrecks, most of which were tied with acts of war. This is also part of a proposed expansion of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.
Currents and storms off Cape Hatteras sometimes cover and uncover shipwrecks, even move them.
Among the best-known examples of a shipwreck "moving" off the North Carolina coast took place in 2011 when a shipwreck known as the Spar (a former Coast Guard ship sunk as an artificial reef) was moved about 200 feet by Hurricane Irene.
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