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Topic: Shipwreck

Image of the schooner-barge Ironton as it sits on the lake floor today. This image is a point cloud extracted from water column returns from multibeam sonar.

Frozen in time: Researchers discover lost shipwreck Ironton

March 1, 2023

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Image of the schooner-barge Ironton as it sits on the lake floor today. This image is a point cloud extracted from water column returns from multibeam sonar.

The bow of the iconic Civil War ironclad Monitor resting on the seafloor off North Carolina.

NOAA and partners launch high definition exploration of historic shipwrecks

May 11, 2022

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America the Beautiful

The bow of the iconic Civil War ironclad Monitor resting on the seafloor off North Carolina.

NOAA and the U.S. Navy raised the Monitor's gun turret on August 5, 2002.

Experts to preview Monitor National Marine Sanctuary shipwreck expedition

April 27, 2022

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NOAA and the U.S. Navy raised the Monitor's gun turret on August 5, 2002.

This image of an anchor was taken from the 1836 shipwreck site of brig Industry in the Gulf of Mexico by the NOAA ROV deployed from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer on February 25, 2022.

NOAA, partners discover wreck of 207-year-old whaling ship

March 23, 2022

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ocean exploration

This image of an anchor was taken from the 1836 shipwreck site of brig Industry in the Gulf of Mexico by the NOAA ROV deployed from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer on February 25, 2022.

A shipwreck comes into view during a Windows to the Deep dive in 2021.

NOAA discovers SS Bloody Marsh, World War II ship torpedoed by U-boat

November 1, 2021

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ocean exploration

Okeanos Explorer

A shipwreck comes into view during a Windows to the Deep dive in 2021.

U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear in the Arctic.

NOAA, Coast Guard locate historic vessel, ending decades-long mystery

October 14, 2021

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ocean exploration

U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear in the Arctic.

A diver swims through the wreckage of the Walter B. Allen schooner

NOAA designates new national marine sanctuary in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan

June 22, 2021

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marine protected areas

A diver swims through the wreckage of the Walter B. Allen schooner

A scuba diver near the shipwreck of the package freighter Florida in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Undated image.

Podcast: Shipwrecks, science and stewardship

February 3, 2021

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marine protected areas

A scuba diver near the shipwreck of the package freighter Florida in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Undated image.

High resolution image of W.E. Hutton and the fish living on it. Fish are displayed with white dots as detected by an instrument called a multibeam echosounder.

Now you can explore sunken shipwrecks from home

November 23, 2020

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ocean exploration

High resolution image of W.E. Hutton and the fish living on it. Fish are displayed with white dots as detected by an instrument called a multibeam echosounder.

The U.S. Navy launches the TDN-1 Drone while steaming off Traverse City, Michigan, during flight tests on August, 10, 1943. This plane has assumed an excessive nose-up attitude and is probably about to stall. The Navy used these aircraft to train and certify pilots to take off and land from aircraft carriers during World War II. As this was a training site, crashes and emergency water landings were frequent. The U.S. Coast Guard operated small yard patrol craft to rescue the pilots and drop a buoy over

Searching for WWII-era aircraft lost in the Great Lakes

January 9, 2020

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The U.S. Navy launches the TDN-1 Drone while steaming off Traverse City, Michigan, during flight tests on August, 10, 1943. This plane has assumed an excessive nose-up attitude and is probably about to stall. The Navy used these aircraft to train and certify pilots to take off and land from aircraft carriers during World War II. As this was a training site, crashes and emergency water landings were frequent. The U.S. Coast Guard operated small yard patrol craft to rescue the pilots and drop a buoy over

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