The Diamond Shoals are an infamous, always-shifting cluster of shallow, underwater
sandbars that extend out from
Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina,
United States. Hidden beneath the waves and constantly changing in both form and depth, the shoals are believed to be responsible for up to 600
shipwreck
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional. Angela Croome reported in January 1999 that there were approximately ...
s along the Cape Hatteras shoreline, an area commonly known as the "
Graveyard of the Atlantic".
References
Shoals of the United States
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