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[Shannon Ricles] Welcome to the webinar today,
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and thank you for joining us.
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We are going to be doing Wrecked on the Chicamacomico,
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a look at the shipwrecks of Wimble Shoals, North Carolina.
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I am Shannon Ricles, the Education and Outreach Coordinator
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for Monitor and Mallows Bay National Marine Sanctuaries.
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And I will be your host today.
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And I am Mark Losavio,
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the Media and Outreach Coordinator
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for Monitor and Mallows Bay-Potomac River.
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And I will be your co-host today.
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So this webinar is brought to you
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by NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
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in collaboration with the North Carolina Office
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of State Archeology.
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Partnering since 1975,
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NOAA and the state of North Carolina work to research,
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honor, and protect the hallmarks
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of North Carolina's underwater cultural heritage,
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shipwrecks.
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These shipwrecks hold information
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about the ever-changing technologies
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and cultural and physical landscapes.
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They serve as a uniquely accessible underwater museum
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and a memorial to generations of the mariners who lived,
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died, worked, and fought off of our shores.
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This is just one of the many webinars that we'll be hosting
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in the coming months and years
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with the Submerged NC Webinar Series in collaboration
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with the North Carolina Office of State Archeology.
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Now, Monitor is just one of 15 national marine sanctuaries
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and two marine national monuments
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in the National Marine Sanctuary System.
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This system encompasses more than 620,000 square miles
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of marine and Great Lakes waters from Washington state
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to the Florida Keys, and from Lake Huron to American Samoa.
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Now during the presentation,
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all attendees will be in listen-only mode.
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A URL for the webpage will be provided
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at the end of this presentation.
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So today we welcome our speaker, Allyson Ropp,
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from the North Carolina Office of State Archeology.
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And I will go ahead and hand over,
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there you go.
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Okay, so you're seeing the PowerPoint, right?
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Yes, we are.
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Hi everyone, my name is Allyson Ropp.
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I am an archeologist with the state of North Carolina.
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I'm also a Ph.D. student
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at the Integrated Coastal Sciences Program
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at East Carolina University
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looking at shipwreck preservation.
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But today we're gonna be talking about some research
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that I did a few years ago on a number of shipwrecks
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off of Chicamacomico, which is the Rodanthe area
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of the Outer Banks.
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So we're gonna go out to the beach today.
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Okay.
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So one of the most famous wrecks that I would say
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is off of North Carolina is the SS Mirlo,
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particularly, for the area that we're talking about.
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The beach right there is named Mirlo Beach.
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And so this vessel was a World War I tanker
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sailing from Britain during the war effort
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and it made it's way over to the United States
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to pick up some oil from the Gulf Coast in New Orleans,
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and was making its way back home to Britain
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when it wrecked off of the shores of North Carolina
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in the Wimble Shoals area.
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And so we don't necessarily know what happened,
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but what we do know, in terms of how it wrecked,
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but what we do know is that the boat caught fire.
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There were multiple explosions
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that split their vessel in half.
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So this is what it would've looked like as a full vessel.
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So it's split it in half, the seas around the wreck
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were burning as the oil is leaking out
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from those explosions and that was being hauled
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in the vessel, and the lifesaving crew
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at Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station right on shore there
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and the townspeople were just watching this happen.
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This is happening in the middle of the day.
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And so the crew banded together and were able
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after multiple attempts to get one of these lifesaving boats
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out there to rescue the crew.
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And the crew themselves on the vessel
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had attempted to get off.
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So they had multiple lifeboats onboard.
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One got off with a heavy load
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and ended up flipping in the fiery sea.
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A second one got off with not as many people
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as it should have, and started to float off
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to the south with the currents.
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And a final one was able to get off with the captain,
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and they were able to start making their way towards shore,
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which is where they ran into the lifesavers,
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the Coast Guardsmen from the shore.
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And they were told what was going on.
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And so they first went to rescue those guys
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in the burning seas.
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So with the water caught on fire, the boat had flipped over,
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these guys were hanging onto the edge of the vessel
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going under so they wouldn't catch on fire
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coming up to breathe so they wouldn't drown.
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And they were repeating this process over and over again
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for a few hours.
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And so the crew was able to get out there,
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pulled these sailors out of the water,
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they then tracked down that second vessel
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that had been floating off, and finally were able to bring
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all of these guys to shore, and they were able to rescue
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all but nine sailors from this event.
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And were since honored by both the American
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and British governments for their effort
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in saving the crew of this ship.
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So this is only one of a number of wrecks
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off of North Carolina.
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And so Mark, we have a poll here and I want you guys
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to tell me how many wrecks do you think there are
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off of North Carolina?
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So all of North Carolina, not just the area
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that we're gonna be talking about today.
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Right.
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So how many shipwrecks are in North Carolina?
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Between one and 500, between 500 and 1,000,
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between 1,000 and 5,000, between 5,000 and 10,000
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or more than 10,000?
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We're already getting quite a few votes in,
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but make sure you do so quickly
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as I will close the poll here soon in a few seconds.
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There's a lot of guesses going on here.
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Perfect.
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All right, I'll give it five more seconds.
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Okay, last chance to vote.
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And there we go.
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It's now closed and here are the results.
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Allyson, can you see that?
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I see a button.
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I don't know what it does.
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Ah.
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No worries, I'll read it to you.
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Okay.
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Looks like the most selected answer
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is between 1,000 and 5,000
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and in second place between 5,000 and 10,000.
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And then third place is more than 10,000.
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Okay, you guys are pretty spot on.
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It's about 5,000 that we know of
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historically from the records.
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Obviously, we don't have account of all of the shipwrecks.
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We probably are missing some that have wrecked
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and nobody knew about.
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And this was made by the National Geographic
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and this just gives you a breadth of the entire state.
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And so all of these lifts and all of these little dots
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along the shoreline and even in the sounds
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and up the rivers are all of the shipwrecks
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that we know about, at least historically.
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Some we have verified archeologically.
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So we know about 5,000.
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In the area that we're talking about today,
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there's about 200 and so we're looking specifically
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at Wimble Shoals, which is right here.
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There's five fan oblique-shaped bars
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right off of what is now Rodanthe, Salvo, and Waves
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in this area of Hatteras Island on the Outer Banks.
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And these are ever-shifting sandbars.
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They were first denoted in the 1700s
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and named after a cartographer named James Wimble.
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And we're pretty confident based on the geological record
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that they're used in the maps that we have
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from that time period in the 1700s,
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that these shoals are the remnants
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of a previously lost cape.
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So like Cape Hatteras and like Cape Lookout,
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there used to be a cape up here called Cape Kenrick
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that eventually became submerged and washed away enough
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to form an inlet at what is now Chicamacomico
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or what is now Rodanthe,
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which was the Chicamacomico inlet.
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And so these bars out here extend about 15 to 17 meters
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and they extend about 15 to 17 kilometers
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and they extend about 10 kilometers offshore.
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And so this area that we're looking at is pretty active.
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You can see there's another shoal
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just north of Wimble Shoals
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and we have some shoals south of it.
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But we are looking at this area between Oregon Inlet
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and the south of the, what is called the Tri-Town Area
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on the Outer Banks.
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And so, as I said, we have about 200 wrecks in this area
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that I looked at as part of this study
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to understand the different wreck stories
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and the historical information that we have
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about a lot of these shipwrecks and what they can tell us
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about wrecking trends in the area.
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And so this was done as part of a larger study
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to understand shipwrecks on Wimble Shoals specifically,
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but I wanted to expand it to see how these shoals
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and just the general nature of this part of the Outer Banks
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was impacting, or did it have any impact
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on how ships had wrecked throughout the time periods we have
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for these various wrecks.
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And so these just gives you a sense of the different types
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of wrecking events that we can have out there.
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So most are driven ashore, which as you see here
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with the Kohler over here on the right
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and another one here on the left.
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And this one in the middle, some were lost during war,
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still see today.
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And so this is one that you can see right in that area
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off of Mirlo Beach.
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If you just go out there and you can look out into the water
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and you can see this boiler sticking up.
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The remains of our Kohler here appear every so often.
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And so, I just answered it, but Mark, we have another poll.
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What is causing most of these shipwrecks in North Carolina,
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do you guys think?
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So we have A, sandbars and shoals,
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B, the weather and storms, C, currents,
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D, sailors or human activities,
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E, none of the above, or F, all of the above.
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So, what's causing most of these wrecks to occur?
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Alright, we've got a pretty distinct trend
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going on here, so I'm not very surprised.
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We have a very smart and well-informed audience
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that I'm very proud to be a part of.
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So I will leave this poll open for,
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I'll give it five more seconds for you guys
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to put in your votes.
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Alright, I'll go ahead and close this now.
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And so it looks like 66% said all of the above
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and most of the other votes went to sandbars and shoals.
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Oh, pretty good guys, that's about accurate.
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So we will start with the environment
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as one of the major drivers of wrecking events in this area,
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which did lead to some of the other human-made errors
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in terms of wrecking.
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So what we have in this area of North Carolina
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off of the Outer Banks is we have these multiple
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different currents and streams coming together.
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So we've got the Gulf Stream coming up from the south,
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there's a big orange one and we have the cooler water
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is coming down from the Labrador Current
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and the shelf waters from the north
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and they're mixing right in this area,
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which you can see in this picture.
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That's why there's all this murky sandy looking water
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right here by Hatteras Island.
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It's where those different currents are coming together
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and that creates distinct wave patterns
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that are hard to predict that creates different,
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you have hot and cold interacting not only in the water
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but in the air that can lead to more storm generation.
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And with all of these currents
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and all of this water movement,
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you're having a lot of sand movement
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that contributes to the shifting shorelines.
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And so what captains had to do in this environment
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is they had to basically pick their poison.
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Did they want, depending on their direction of travel,
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did they wanna go way out here and possibly get stuck
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in the Gulf stream if they're going south
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or did they wanna thread this needle between the shoreline
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and the shoals to try to make it around this
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and avoid all of these different currents
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that they were facing.
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But another consideration here is just the sheer amount
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of traffic that was happening off the coastline
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of North Carolina and continues to happen today.
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So this is a map of all of the different tracks
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that have ships and this is just zoomed into North Carolina.
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And you can see there are distinct lines of travel
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that are happening up and down our shorelines,
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and this has been going on for decades.
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There's accounts from Kinnakeet,
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which is now modern-day Avon,
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which is just south of where we're talking,
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in this area, that the townspeople could look out
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in the 1800s and see 75 to 80 ships per day passing.
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So that's a lot of traffic happening up and down.
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And if you have captains that aren't familiar with the area,
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the shoals that are always moving,
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making decisions on the fly as storms blow in,
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it can lead to a lot of interactions
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and eventually shipwrecking in that area.
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And so what all of these wrecks ended up leading to
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was the eventual development of the Lifesaving Service
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in the United States.
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While it came out of wrecks across the country,
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there were some major wrecks that happened in North Carolina
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that drove the formation of the Lifesaving Service.
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So this is just the locations
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of all of the lifesaving stations that were ever-present
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in North Carolina as well as the lighthouses.
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And so the area that we're looking at,
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we're looking between Oregon Inlet and Gull Shoals
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on Hatteras Island.
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And so some are still there,
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you can still see the Chicamacomico Station
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if you go out to Rodanthe today.
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They do really cool reenactments
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of how all of the Lifesaving Service equipment functions.
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And I believe the Oregon Inlet Station is still present
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and it's now a part of the park service.
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But a lot of these places,
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so they're within walking distance of one another.
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And so crew members from Chicamacomico
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would pace halfway between New Inlet and Chicamacomico,
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and halfway between Gull Shoals and Chicamacomico.
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And they would meet up with their neighboring stations
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to ensure that they were covering the breadth
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of the shoreline as they're looking out
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for shipwrecks offshore.
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Now, as we'll see in some of the stories here in a minute,
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they couldn't necessarily see all of the time
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because of how bad the weather got out there
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and they were just using their lanterns.
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And while the lighthouses can be seen offshore,
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they're not just shedding light down the entire stretch
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of this island, you can just spot the light flashing.
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So we'll get started with our earliest wreck here,
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the Pocahontas.
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Pocahontas was built in Baltimore in 1829
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for the Maryland and Virginia Steamboat Company.
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It was 138-foot vessel
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that could accommodate a hundred passengers.
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And so throughout it's life it was pretty lucky.
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It didn't crash earlier, it hit a couple of storms,
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but no serious damage.
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And at one point it even carried a Siamese Princess
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when she was visiting the United States.
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And during the Civil War it became a horse transport
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and was part of the Burnside Expedition.
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And so in January of 1862, the ferry had big commission
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to haul horses from Baltimore down to Hatteras.
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And all of these horses, they're about 113,
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were a part of the fourth regiment of the Rhode Island unit.
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And what happened?
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So they hit a storm in the Wimble Shoals area
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and it was driven aground.
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And so the boiler blew.
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So we have our boiler here.
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So this exploded, the steering gave out,
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so they had lost complete control of the ship.
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The hull started to leak,
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and when they were about 10 miles offshore,
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they started pushing these horses over,
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which you can see in this illustration here,
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you've got horses and people all running a shore
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as the ship out there is breaking up.
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And so they were able to get all but 24 of the horses off
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because there were a few that were stuck down in the hold
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and they couldn't get them out.
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And all the crew member were saved.
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So in this instance, most of them just washed ashore,
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but the ship was completely gone.
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So the Lifesaving Service was not involved,
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as I can tell in this rescue.
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They made their way ashore themselves.
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And so our next one is the Annie E. Blackman.
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This one was built in 1883 in New Jersey
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as a three-masted schooner for coal and lumber transport
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along the Eastern Seaboard.
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She spent six years sailing up and down,
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and had only one major collision during her life.
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In the fall of 1888, 1889, excuse me,
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she left Philadelphia for Jacksonville, Florida
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laden with coal.
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And she was lost about two to three miles off of New Inlet,
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which is above Rodanthe.
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So that's an inlet that is no longer present,
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where the Pea Island lifesaving
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or Pea Island visitor center is.
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So it's no longer there, it's since closed.
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But that's the general area in which the Blackman wrecked.
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So in this case, the storm completely drove the ship ashore.
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It was completely leaking.
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And unfortunately, there was only one survivor
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in this instance.
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And this was the captain.
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And the captain just happened to have
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the only life vest aboard
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and was able to float towards shore
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as his fellow crewman drowned and the ship was lost.
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So he was able to float in and floated into the inlet
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and just happened to come across a pole within the inlet.
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And he tied himself to that pole
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for the remainder of the night and just walked in circles
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around the pole as the storm was raging around him.
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Now the Lifesaving Service had been keeping an eye out
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that night because of the major storm
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that was blowing through, but because of the weather
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they couldn't see anything.
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So they didn't know that the Blackman had ran aground
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and had wrecked at night until they went out
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the following morning, and they saw the remains of the ship
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and they came across the captain in the inlet
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who was still walking around the pole.
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They were able to get him off the pole,
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and fed, and warm.
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But the ship was a complete loss.
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So we have the Strathairly here,
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which is out of New England.
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It was built in New Castle, England.
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And so when this vessel wrecked,
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it was on route from Baltimore,
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from Cuba with a load of iron ore.
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It ran into some fog and ran aground.
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They were able to alert the Lifesaving Station,
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but again, the Lifesaving Station at Chicamacomico
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wasn't able to do anything because of that dense fog.
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And so when the fog lifted,
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they had noticed from shore that the mast had broken.
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The life vessels or lifeboats had all been broken up.
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The vessel had split in half.
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And they were eventually informed that at that point,
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three members of the crew had died.
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So because the ship was so close to shore,
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the lifesaving station, instead of launching the boats
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as they did in the case of the Mirlo,
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were able to use a Lyle gun,
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which is basically just shooting out a shot line
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to the vessel so they could tie it off too
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and then haul sailors in from the wrecking ship.
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This eventually failed.
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They were never able to get the shot line out there
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and the ship continued to break up.
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And all of the wave action
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and at that point the crew members
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with the available life vests jumped overboard
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and started to swim to shore.
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Only seven of the crew that were on this vessel survived.
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This vessel has been found and documented
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with a joint effort between CSI,
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the Coastal Studies Institute here in North Carolina,
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the East Carolina program in maritime studies
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and NOAA to document this wreck off of Rodanthe.
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So the George L. Fessenden was a Maine built
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three-masted schooner.
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It was built in 1874.
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It had a very long career and went all the way around
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the Eastern Seaboard down into the Gulf.
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It has a really interesting career.
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So this vessel carried everything from coal and timber
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to molasses and sugar, and at one point it lost
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its complete cargo of molasses and no one is really sure
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how that molasses was lost.
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And a separate occasion, the captain,
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they had pulled into port and sat there for a few days,
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and the captain had completely disappeared,
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and they had no idea where he had went.
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And they eventually learned that he had checked himself
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into a psychiatric hospital.
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But in April of 1898, she had been loaded with stone
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from Philadelphia for Fort Caswell in Southport.
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And, at this point, she's sailing down from Philadelphia,
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making good time and at some point put into Hampton Roads
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and the records don't tell us why,
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no one really knows what this vessel
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was doing in Hampton Roads.
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But it went in and then it came out a few days later,
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and it started sailing south again to get to Southport.
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And about four miles northeast
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of the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station
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the vessel anchored.
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And again, no one knows why. The Lifesaving Station saw it.
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So they were sitting there and they were watching it
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waiting to see if it raised any distress flags
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so they could go out and help.
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A passing steamer had noticed that they were in distress,
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and wanted to stop by and help get the crew off the vessel,
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but the crew refused to leave the vessel.
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So we now have this vessel
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that's just sitting there anchored, potentially in distress,
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potentially not in distress.
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And a major storm blows in and completely wrecks the vessel
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washing away four of the crew members,
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including the captain.
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And at this point in this anchoring the anchor chain breaks,
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the vessel's being driven ashore, and at this point
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the Lifesaving Station steps in, and are able to get in
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to help get the remaining crew off the vessel.
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And so what they learned when they got the crew aboard
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is that the captain had drowned,
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he had been washed overboard during the storm.
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The remaining crew had reported that the ship was rotten.
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So it probably wasn't in great sailing condition.
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And unfortunately,
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the sailors didn't really know each other.
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It's unclear if they even spoke the same language.
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So they didn't really know what to do
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at any point in time to convince the captain
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to wave the distress signal or even once the storm blew up.
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So it's a really interesting events
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in the life of this vessel.
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So we have the Alfred Brarbook,
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which was another three-masted schooner out of Maine.
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It was built in 1873.
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Pretty uneventful career.
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So in 1899, the vessel was loaded with ice from Maine
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to Charleston, South Carolina when it ran aground,
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ran into a gale and a snowstorm off of North Carolina.
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And this one happened to be spotted by a patrolman
516
00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:15.780
that was walking up and down the beach as they did.
517
00:26:15.780 --> 00:26:17.640
And they were able to get help.
518
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:19.800
And because it was so close to shore,
519
00:26:19.800 --> 00:26:22.080
the Lifesaving Station could use the Lyle gun
520
00:26:22.080 --> 00:26:23.880
to save the crew.
521
00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:26.763
But the vessel and the cargo were a total loss.
522
00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:33.840
So the Montana here was a three-masted schooner
523
00:26:33.840 --> 00:26:35.283
built in New Jersey.
524
00:26:36.150 --> 00:26:38.343
Again, pretty uneventful career.
525
00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:44.910
So in 1904, she had been loaded with salt from Charleston
526
00:26:44.910 --> 00:26:46.563
to sail to New York.
527
00:26:47.820 --> 00:26:52.820
In a storm, again, we had our ship run aground
528
00:26:53.550 --> 00:26:55.170
about a quarter mile north
529
00:26:55.170 --> 00:26:57.300
of the Pea Island Life-Saving Station
530
00:26:57.300 --> 00:26:59.220
about 300 yards from shore.
531
00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:03.727
And in this case, because it was a pretty visible storm
532
00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:07.740
that they could see through the lifesaving,
533
00:27:07.740 --> 00:27:11.370
the vessel was able to signal ashore
534
00:27:11.370 --> 00:27:13.440
and take shelter in the rigging.
535
00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:18.440
And at that point, they were able to get out there and help.
536
00:27:19.950 --> 00:27:23.430
And so the Lifesaving Station was able to use the Lyle gun,
537
00:27:23.430 --> 00:27:24.960
again, to save the crew members.
538
00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:27.030
But in that waiting period,
539
00:27:27.030 --> 00:27:29.313
one of the crew members were lost.
540
00:27:31.020 --> 00:27:34.770
So the Loring C. Ballard is again another one you can see
541
00:27:34.770 --> 00:27:39.660
on the beaches at the Outer Bank, it's near Ramp 23.
542
00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:41.730
And this is what it looks like at various times,
543
00:27:41.730 --> 00:27:43.830
at various tides.
544
00:27:43.830 --> 00:27:46.230
So this is another Maine built, three-masted schooner.
545
00:27:46.230 --> 00:27:50.520
It was built in 1884, had a long career.
546
00:27:50.520 --> 00:27:54.480
And so in April of 1915, she left Portland, Maine
547
00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:56.220
for South Carolina and ballast.
548
00:27:56.220 --> 00:27:59.490
So she wasn't carrying anything on her way
549
00:27:59.490 --> 00:28:02.485
down to South Carolina.
550
00:28:02.485 --> 00:28:04.500
It ran into a hurricane about a half a mile
551
00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:09.500
from Gull Shoal's Lifesaving Station.
552
00:28:10.470 --> 00:28:14.673
And over time, as they were waiting to be rescued,
553
00:28:15.600 --> 00:28:17.940
'cause it took a while to get the Lyle gun out there,
554
00:28:17.940 --> 00:28:19.860
it just kept being driven, and driven ashore,
555
00:28:19.860 --> 00:28:22.470
and the crew were all saved.
556
00:28:22.470 --> 00:28:25.140
But as you can see, the vessel was not,
557
00:28:25.140 --> 00:28:27.930
I'm sure there were some salvage operations that happened,
558
00:28:27.930 --> 00:28:31.323
but this is what we can see today when we go out there.
559
00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:37.620
The Elizabeth is an American-built steamer.
560
00:28:37.620 --> 00:28:39.333
She's built in 1904.
561
00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:44.250
And in 1919, in March, she was loaded with sugar
562
00:28:44.250 --> 00:28:47.250
in the West Indies to be sailed to New York.
563
00:28:47.250 --> 00:28:51.030
And so this one actually did run aground on Wimble Shoals.
564
00:28:51.030 --> 00:28:54.000
And so those shoals can get really shallow out there
565
00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:56.970
depending on the draft of the vessel and at certain tides.
566
00:28:56.970 --> 00:28:59.640
And so she ran aground three miles offshore on the shoals,
567
00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:01.323
and began to take on water.
568
00:29:02.550 --> 00:29:06.150
Because she was so far away, while they did alert
569
00:29:06.150 --> 00:29:07.470
the Lifesaving Station,
570
00:29:07.470 --> 00:29:10.260
the crew couldn't make any significant efforts
571
00:29:10.260 --> 00:29:14.850
to get out there to save the crew and the cargo.
572
00:29:14.850 --> 00:29:18.750
Eventually, the next day a tug from Norfolk had arrived
573
00:29:18.750 --> 00:29:22.530
to help rescue the crew that was on the vessel.
574
00:29:22.530 --> 00:29:24.420
And so all of the crew were saved.
575
00:29:24.420 --> 00:29:26.970
They don't mention anything about the cargo of sugar,
576
00:29:26.970 --> 00:29:29.433
presumably, it was lost with the vessel.
577
00:29:31.410 --> 00:29:34.500
Now, I think this one is really a cool one
578
00:29:34.500 --> 00:29:37.280
and one day I hope we can find it.
579
00:29:37.280 --> 00:29:40.800
So the Governor Ames was built in Maine in 1888,
580
00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:42.840
it's the first five-masted schooner
581
00:29:42.840 --> 00:29:44.703
to ever sail in the ocean.
582
00:29:45.540 --> 00:29:47.400
So at this point in the 1880s
583
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:48.930
there had been five-masted schooners
584
00:29:48.930 --> 00:29:51.130
that were sailing around on the Great Lakes,
585
00:29:51.990 --> 00:29:53.550
but none had sailed the ocean.
586
00:29:53.550 --> 00:29:57.120
And this was the first one, and this is actually
587
00:29:57.120 --> 00:29:59.343
what it looked like in the 1800s.
588
00:30:00.810 --> 00:30:04.080
She had a long storied career, she traveled the world,
589
00:30:04.080 --> 00:30:07.830
she sailed from Australia all the way to England,
590
00:30:07.830 --> 00:30:11.790
up and down the Atlantic seaboard, down to South America,
591
00:30:11.790 --> 00:30:13.740
up and down the west coast.
592
00:30:13.740 --> 00:30:18.740
And during the 14-year career, she had several incidences
593
00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:22.710
including one on her maiden voyage.
594
00:30:22.710 --> 00:30:26.130
They did not build the mast that you see there tall enough
595
00:30:26.130 --> 00:30:28.230
to support the entirety of the vessel.
596
00:30:28.230 --> 00:30:30.630
So went out on its maiden voyage
597
00:30:30.630 --> 00:30:33.390
and began to have issues immediately.
598
00:30:33.390 --> 00:30:36.960
So it went back into port so it could be fixed.
599
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:40.200
Now, in December of 1919, it left Georgia for New York
600
00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:43.920
with railroad ties when it ran aground,
601
00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:46.210
again, on Wimble Shoals two days later
602
00:30:47.070 --> 00:30:49.470
and was sitting in heavy seas.
603
00:30:49.470 --> 00:30:54.270
And so there are harrowing accounts of this story
604
00:30:54.270 --> 00:30:56.523
from the only survivor of this wreck.
605
00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:01.170
And he put it in very dramatic terms
606
00:31:01.170 --> 00:31:03.870
about what was happening on the vessel
607
00:31:03.870 --> 00:31:08.760
as the railroad ties were flailing about in the sea,
608
00:31:08.760 --> 00:31:13.760
the masts were coming down, waves were washing over.
609
00:31:13.860 --> 00:31:17.790
And so he's hanging on to various different pieces
610
00:31:17.790 --> 00:31:19.200
of the ship at this time.
611
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:24.200
So he starts out on the bow string here at one point,
612
00:31:24.990 --> 00:31:27.540
he goes up into the rafters at one point,
613
00:31:27.540 --> 00:31:32.070
and then soon gets washes overboard and is hanging on
614
00:31:32.070 --> 00:31:35.520
to a hatch covering and floating pieces of timber
615
00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:37.230
that are coming off of the vessel.
616
00:31:37.230 --> 00:31:40.080
And two days later, he's picked up by a passing vessel
617
00:31:40.080 --> 00:31:42.150
and he makes it to shore and he's telling everybody
618
00:31:42.150 --> 00:31:47.150
this story and has written a whole account of it
619
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:49.863
for the newspapers.
620
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:54.030
So it's just a really interesting account
621
00:31:54.030 --> 00:31:58.080
of someone living through the wrecking event
622
00:31:58.080 --> 00:32:00.660
and telling the story, which is not something,
623
00:32:00.660 --> 00:32:03.833
we see a lot of, particularly in the 1920s.
624
00:32:05.547 --> 00:32:08.850
And so our last one is another one that we can see
625
00:32:08.850 --> 00:32:10.410
on the beach every so often.
626
00:32:10.410 --> 00:32:12.810
This is the G.A. Kohler.
627
00:32:12.810 --> 00:32:16.390
And so this was built in 1919, it's a four-masted schooner
628
00:32:17.280 --> 00:32:21.719
and it sailed up and down from New York to South America.
629
00:32:21.719 --> 00:32:24.410
It wasn't originally called the G.A. Kohler,
630
00:32:24.410 --> 00:32:28.950
it was renamed this in 1923, after a tobacco magnet
631
00:32:28.950 --> 00:32:30.630
who owned the share of the company
632
00:32:30.630 --> 00:32:32.970
that purchased the vessel.
633
00:32:32.970 --> 00:32:35.070
And at this point, they turned it
634
00:32:35.070 --> 00:32:36.390
into a true sailing vessel.
635
00:32:36.390 --> 00:32:40.170
So when it was built originally, it had auxiliary engines
636
00:32:40.170 --> 00:32:42.180
to support the sailing.
637
00:32:42.180 --> 00:32:44.460
So when the winds weren't blowing,
638
00:32:44.460 --> 00:32:45.990
they could still maneuver the vessel,
639
00:32:45.990 --> 00:32:48.210
they could still go on their way.
640
00:32:48.210 --> 00:32:51.840
But in 1923, with this renaming and this repurposing,
641
00:32:51.840 --> 00:32:55.470
they removed those and it was just solely a sailing vessel.
642
00:32:55.470 --> 00:33:00.470
And so in August of 1933, I'm sorry, yeah, 1933,
643
00:33:01.020 --> 00:33:03.100
it left Baltimore for the West Indies
644
00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:05.910
and we're not sure what it was carrying,
645
00:33:05.910 --> 00:33:08.400
but it ran into a storm off of North Carolina
646
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:11.165
and the captain said, "Oh, okay,
647
00:33:11.165 --> 00:33:14.160
we'll anchor and wait the storm out."
648
00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.560
But at some point, the storm just picked up
649
00:33:16.560 --> 00:33:17.700
and became too heavy.
650
00:33:17.700 --> 00:33:19.890
And at that point, they dropped the anchor
651
00:33:19.890 --> 00:33:24.060
about 12 miles off, and they just kept getting driven
652
00:33:24.060 --> 00:33:26.460
into shore, which you can see here.
653
00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:28.260
So this is right after the wrecking event,
654
00:33:28.260 --> 00:33:30.903
that vessel is clearly on the beach.
655
00:33:32.670 --> 00:33:36.690
And so the vessel, over time and during the storm,
656
00:33:36.690 --> 00:33:39.360
had become so buried that they couldn't get it out.
657
00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:41.200
Obviously, the crew was able to get off
658
00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:43.470
'cause at this point they were on shore.
659
00:33:43.470 --> 00:33:45.510
But what we have today is every so often,
660
00:33:45.510 --> 00:33:49.470
we can see the remains of a vessel appear on the beach.
661
00:33:49.470 --> 00:33:52.650
It is still in a place where at points in time,
662
00:33:52.650 --> 00:33:54.480
the vessel will go completely under the sand,
663
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:56.780
at points in time it'll be completely exposed,
664
00:33:57.870 --> 00:34:01.383
but it is there and can still be seen.
665
00:34:02.670 --> 00:34:04.677
So what do all of these stories
666
00:34:04.677 --> 00:34:06.630
and the ones I didn't tell you,
667
00:34:06.630 --> 00:34:10.410
tell us about how wrecking was occurring
668
00:34:10.410 --> 00:34:12.420
in all of the different time periods
669
00:34:12.420 --> 00:34:15.240
and driving factors of these vessels.
670
00:34:15.240 --> 00:34:19.313
And so what I did was take the 200 plus vessels we had.
671
00:34:19.313 --> 00:34:23.700
So we had 204 stories in this case or accounts of wrecks
672
00:34:23.700 --> 00:34:25.560
in this area, and I plotted them.
673
00:34:25.560 --> 00:34:29.730
Unfortunately, 74 I was not able to plot
674
00:34:29.730 --> 00:34:32.910
because we didn't have specific locations
675
00:34:32.910 --> 00:34:36.180
for where this vessel or this wrecking occurred.
676
00:34:36.180 --> 00:34:40.830
And so what you see here is where all these vessels are
677
00:34:40.830 --> 00:34:45.363
across the shoals and even beyond the shoals out here.
678
00:34:46.560 --> 00:34:51.560
So how are these distributed in relation to the shoreline?
679
00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:55.320
And I think what's really obvious upon first look
680
00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:57.930
is that a lot of them are on shore.
681
00:34:57.930 --> 00:35:00.030
Or very close to shore, at least at the scale
682
00:35:00.030 --> 00:35:01.320
that this map's at.
683
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:04.020
And so how I did this, we broke it up
684
00:35:04.020 --> 00:35:06.510
into a couple of distinct areas.
685
00:35:06.510 --> 00:35:10.350
And so we have a 500-yard buffer here,
686
00:35:10.350 --> 00:35:11.580
which is our purple line.
687
00:35:11.580 --> 00:35:13.740
So all of these points in green,
688
00:35:13.740 --> 00:35:17.727
close to shore, or right on the shore.
689
00:35:17.727 --> 00:35:19.920
And so this was the distance that,
690
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.630
I picked this distance 'cause this is the distance
691
00:35:21.630 --> 00:35:22.710
of the Lifesaving Service
692
00:35:22.710 --> 00:35:24.783
that use a Lyle gun to rescue them.
693
00:35:26.700 --> 00:35:29.880
And almost all of our wrecks are onshore
694
00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:32.190
or were driven ashore at this time.
695
00:35:32.190 --> 00:35:34.870
The area between these two lines here
696
00:35:36.420 --> 00:35:39.210
encompasses the rest of the three-mile state buffer.
697
00:35:39.210 --> 00:35:41.940
So this blue line, this further line out here
698
00:35:41.940 --> 00:35:43.200
is the three-mile buffer.
699
00:35:43.200 --> 00:35:48.200
So the state manages all the submerged bottom lands
700
00:35:49.230 --> 00:35:51.960
within three-miles of the coast on the Eastern Seaboard.
701
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:54.210
And so all of these wrecks here in the middle
702
00:35:54.210 --> 00:35:56.520
are those that were labeled as nearshore.
703
00:35:56.520 --> 00:36:00.540
So they were close enough that the crew could get out there,
704
00:36:00.540 --> 00:36:04.680
and sail out there, and rescue them if needed
705
00:36:04.680 --> 00:36:08.880
or they could make it ashore themselves.
706
00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:11.190
The red here are offshore,
707
00:36:11.190 --> 00:36:13.200
so everything past that three-mile limit
708
00:36:13.200 --> 00:36:14.820
it's declared offshore.
709
00:36:14.820 --> 00:36:18.780
And these were the ones where they're pretty much left
710
00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:22.323
to their own devices in terms of being rescued.
711
00:36:23.910 --> 00:36:28.803
So there's a handful and they're all spaced out fairly well.
712
00:36:30.780 --> 00:36:35.400
So this just gives you a zoomed-in view
713
00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:38.610
of how many of those wrecks are occurring
714
00:36:38.610 --> 00:36:40.230
right on our shoreline.
715
00:36:40.230 --> 00:36:43.800
Again, we haven't found a lot of 'em.
716
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:45.420
That's not to say that the communities
717
00:36:45.420 --> 00:36:48.210
that we're living out here during these times
718
00:36:48.210 --> 00:36:50.627
weren't salvaging that wood that was washing a shore
719
00:36:50.627 --> 00:36:53.013
and using it for structures.
720
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:55.680
Because there were people living out there
721
00:36:55.680 --> 00:36:59.160
and they did need supplies and sometimes all you got
722
00:36:59.160 --> 00:37:00.960
were the shipwrecks coming to shore.
723
00:37:02.820 --> 00:37:07.820
So how are these distributed temporarily across this space?
724
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:14.360
So, time, you can see there's a distinct jump
725
00:37:17.250 --> 00:37:19.363
in the 1800s.
726
00:37:19.363 --> 00:37:22.860
So these are in 10-year increments here, in our decades.
727
00:37:22.860 --> 00:37:26.010
And you can see there's a distinct increase
728
00:37:26.010 --> 00:37:29.970
in the 1800s as compared to the 1700s.
729
00:37:29.970 --> 00:37:34.630
We do have a fair number that were reported during
730
00:37:36.300 --> 00:37:39.030
the revolutionary war-time period,
731
00:37:39.030 --> 00:37:41.157
but most of them are from those 1800s.
732
00:37:41.157 --> 00:37:43.890
And this is just due to the sheer amount of shipping
733
00:37:43.890 --> 00:37:46.110
that was happening during this time.
734
00:37:46.110 --> 00:37:49.260
There were just so many more boats that were on the waters
735
00:37:49.260 --> 00:37:54.150
during the 1800s than the 1900s, trade was happening daily.
736
00:37:54.150 --> 00:37:56.910
There was accounts from the people living on the island
737
00:37:56.910 --> 00:37:59.940
saying that they could see 75 to 80 vessels a day
738
00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:03.960
sailing up and down, indicates that.
739
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:07.800
We do see a drop in the 1850s and 1860s
740
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.480
that is likely related to the increased war
741
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.003
or the Civil War that was happening in the 1860s.
742
00:38:16.080 --> 00:38:19.590
Where are you putting your efforts during that time?
743
00:38:19.590 --> 00:38:23.040
So we're seeing less movement during that time period.
744
00:38:23.040 --> 00:38:26.497
We do have high numbers in the early 1900s,
745
00:38:26.497 --> 00:38:28.623
which are all these green dots.
746
00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:32.070
And those are scattered throughout and you can see
747
00:38:32.070 --> 00:38:34.713
that's when they start to get further offshore.
748
00:38:36.990 --> 00:38:39.630
That's because that's when we had more steam,
749
00:38:39.630 --> 00:38:43.680
we had less sail.
750
00:38:43.680 --> 00:38:47.947
So they're able to navigate in these waters a little better
751
00:38:59.700 --> 00:39:01.053
than a sailing vessel.
752
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:05.280
So, the Mirlo and other the wrecks are further offshore
753
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.980
because they have the ability to navigate out there.
754
00:39:07.980 --> 00:39:11.313
So looking at it in the month breakdown,
755
00:39:12.420 --> 00:39:15.000
not related to the points you're seeing on the map,
756
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.670
but just looking at the number of counts we have two peaks.
757
00:39:17.670 --> 00:39:20.820
We have a peak in the winter here
758
00:39:20.820 --> 00:39:24.420
and we have a peak in the late summer, early fall.
759
00:39:24.420 --> 00:39:27.510
And those are related, I believe, to the storm season.
760
00:39:27.510 --> 00:39:30.660
So, late summer, early fall we have the hurricane season,
761
00:39:30.660 --> 00:39:33.690
and we have a number of stories talking about
762
00:39:33.690 --> 00:39:37.380
a hurricane appearing, and strong winds, and strong storms
763
00:39:37.380 --> 00:39:39.030
that are driving wrecks ashore.
764
00:39:39.030 --> 00:39:41.880
But we have significantly more in the winter
765
00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:43.407
and that's when we get a lot of northeasters,
766
00:39:43.407 --> 00:39:46.350
and the northern gales blowing in.
767
00:39:46.350 --> 00:39:50.580
And those snow storms that are happening or were happening
768
00:39:50.580 --> 00:39:52.833
contributing to these wrecking events.
769
00:39:54.270 --> 00:39:56.580
Okay, so how are they spaced by what we know
770
00:39:56.580 --> 00:39:58.590
about how they wrecked?
771
00:39:58.590 --> 00:40:02.340
Now this is a little murky because some of these
772
00:40:02.340 --> 00:40:07.260
could be related to one another, run aground
773
00:40:07.260 --> 00:40:12.260
is probably connected to having a storm present.
774
00:40:12.630 --> 00:40:14.490
While there may have been some that ran aground
775
00:40:14.490 --> 00:40:16.290
just because they didn't know the area,
776
00:40:16.290 --> 00:40:18.960
they could have also ran aground in a storm.
777
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:22.110
So these divisions were based off of what we were seeing
778
00:40:22.110 --> 00:40:26.100
in the records and a lot of them did occur
779
00:40:26.100 --> 00:40:29.580
because we ran aground in a storm.
780
00:40:29.580 --> 00:40:33.060
We don't know, there's a number of about 60
781
00:40:33.060 --> 00:40:35.013
that we have no idea how they wrecked.
782
00:40:36.330 --> 00:40:37.680
They just wrecked.
783
00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:40.320
And we have a few war losses that are plotted,
784
00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:42.900
including closer to shore, which that is, I believe,
785
00:40:42.900 --> 00:40:44.100
the Pocahontas up there.
786
00:40:46.721 --> 00:40:51.540
So, what about the direction of travel?
787
00:40:51.540 --> 00:40:53.160
And so the direction of travel,
788
00:40:53.160 --> 00:40:54.910
most of them were unknown
789
00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:58.600
just because of what they're reporting to the lifesavers
790
00:41:00.690 --> 00:41:03.600
in terms of what the crew may or may not have known
791
00:41:03.600 --> 00:41:05.400
about where they were going.
792
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:09.000
But really we have distinct patterns in north and south.
793
00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:12.120
Our south ones are all closer to shore
794
00:41:12.120 --> 00:41:14.370
where our northern ones start to spread out
795
00:41:14.370 --> 00:41:15.963
and move away from shore.
796
00:41:17.100 --> 00:41:19.350
We do have one coming from the west,
797
00:41:19.350 --> 00:41:23.130
it was sailing from England and I believe it was then
798
00:41:23.130 --> 00:41:25.350
going to head south, but they reported
799
00:41:25.350 --> 00:41:26.883
that they were sailing west.
800
00:41:28.050 --> 00:41:30.060
And so we have a second one too.
801
00:41:30.060 --> 00:41:34.350
And so in thinking about this with the Gulf Stream,
802
00:41:34.350 --> 00:41:37.173
the different currents and whatnot offshore,
803
00:41:38.100 --> 00:41:42.030
it does make sense that our southern ones they're picking,
804
00:41:42.030 --> 00:41:45.210
do we wanna be closer to shore and those shorelines
805
00:41:45.210 --> 00:41:48.930
or do we wanna get stuck in this massive
806
00:41:48.930 --> 00:41:53.610
and very fast-moving Gulf Stream
807
00:41:53.610 --> 00:41:56.940
that would inhibit their ability to go south?
808
00:41:56.940 --> 00:42:00.000
So they made a decision to sail closer to shore,
809
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.940
which introduced them to all of these shoals
810
00:42:02.940 --> 00:42:06.390
that are moving and the maps may not have kept up with it,
811
00:42:06.390 --> 00:42:10.173
in terms of a decision that they had to make.
812
00:42:11.010 --> 00:42:13.860
And so what can we learn from all of this
813
00:42:13.860 --> 00:42:16.230
in terms of just general understanding of wrecking
814
00:42:16.230 --> 00:42:18.330
in this area is that a lot of them
815
00:42:18.330 --> 00:42:20.670
are clustered very close to shore
816
00:42:20.670 --> 00:42:23.490
and then the numbers significantly decreased
817
00:42:23.490 --> 00:42:25.140
as you move away from shore.
818
00:42:25.140 --> 00:42:28.830
Most of them were occurring during the 19th century,
819
00:42:28.830 --> 00:42:30.930
which is when we were seeing most of the vessels
820
00:42:30.930 --> 00:42:32.763
out on the water to begin with.
821
00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:37.290
Wrecks tended to occur in the first four months of the year,
822
00:42:37.290 --> 00:42:38.940
in the last four months of the year, again,
823
00:42:38.940 --> 00:42:43.290
tied to potentially those seasonal storm patterns
824
00:42:43.290 --> 00:42:45.090
that are happening.
825
00:42:45.090 --> 00:42:48.210
We don't see a distinct reason for wrecking
826
00:42:48.210 --> 00:42:53.040
and that may be because there were compounding issues,
827
00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:56.820
if you have a storm, you lose control of your vessel,
828
00:42:56.820 --> 00:42:58.800
you're probably gonna run aground.
829
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:02.670
And so captains, and crew, and lifesavers
830
00:43:02.670 --> 00:43:04.890
that were reporting these incidents
831
00:43:04.890 --> 00:43:07.440
were just doing the best they could
832
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:09.040
in what they could come up with.
833
00:43:10.050 --> 00:43:13.083
And so in terms of the direction of travel,
834
00:43:13.950 --> 00:43:16.650
we're seeing southbound vessels tend to be closer to shore.
835
00:43:16.650 --> 00:43:19.830
Northbound vessels tend to cover all three areas,
836
00:43:19.830 --> 00:43:23.160
but are moving offshore a little bit further
837
00:43:23.160 --> 00:43:25.260
because they can utilize that Gulf Stream
838
00:43:25.260 --> 00:43:27.483
to help push them further north.
839
00:43:28.620 --> 00:43:32.520
And so overall, I think what this shows
840
00:43:32.520 --> 00:43:35.970
is that you can use those stories and those accounts
841
00:43:35.970 --> 00:43:38.360
to understand larger wreck patterns
842
00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:41.310
and this has been taken up by other researchers
843
00:43:41.310 --> 00:43:45.600
to understand wrecking patterns on the interior side
844
00:43:45.600 --> 00:43:50.600
of Hatteras Island in the same area for the Pamlico Sound.
845
00:43:51.570 --> 00:43:55.690
And seeing some different trends or comparing those trends
846
00:43:56.640 --> 00:43:58.080
helps us understand potentially
847
00:43:58.080 --> 00:44:00.120
where some of these wrecks could be,
848
00:44:00.120 --> 00:44:05.120
but also just the general nature of the area.
849
00:44:05.640 --> 00:44:10.640
So with that, I would love to take any questions
850
00:44:11.220 --> 00:44:13.863
that you have about shipwrecks on Wimble Shoals.
851
00:44:17.610 --> 00:44:21.810
Shannon, before we, or can we actually go back
852
00:44:21.810 --> 00:44:26.640
to Allyson's presentation and can we flip back to the map?
853
00:44:26.640 --> 00:44:30.960
We have a couple of questions in the chat about the map
854
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:33.660
that you were showing in the last few slides.
855
00:44:33.660 --> 00:44:38.660
Can you just talk us through some of what we're seeing here?
856
00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.210
Like are these numbers in feet or fathoms?
857
00:44:42.210 --> 00:44:43.043
Yeah.
858
00:44:43.043 --> 00:44:45.390
These are in feet, I believe.
859
00:44:53.190 --> 00:44:54.660
They might be meters.
860
00:44:54.660 --> 00:44:56.250
That's a great question.
861
00:44:56.250 --> 00:44:57.573
This is a NOAA chart.
862
00:45:04.650 --> 00:45:06.483
I believe they're meters actually,
863
00:45:10.006 --> 00:45:11.060
I need to zoom to that one.
864
00:45:11.060 --> 00:45:14.733
Hold on, we're gonna go way back to the beginning.
865
00:45:22.140 --> 00:45:23.313
They're in meters.
866
00:45:25.350 --> 00:45:26.183
Perfect.
867
00:45:26.183 --> 00:45:27.016
Thank you, so much.
868
00:45:28.020 --> 00:45:29.176
All right, anything else Mark?
869
00:45:29.176 --> 00:45:30.840
Sorry, didn't mean to cut you off.
870
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:31.673
No.
871
00:45:31.673 --> 00:45:32.970
Anything else, Mark, you wanted to ask
872
00:45:32.970 --> 00:45:35.223
before we take our presentation back?
873
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:39.240
The only other question
874
00:45:39.240 --> 00:45:41.910
which I don't think it's necessarily map-relevant,
875
00:45:41.910 --> 00:45:44.010
but the MAB, when you say that,
876
00:45:44.010 --> 00:45:46.293
are you talking about the Mid-Atlantic Bight?
877
00:45:47.731 --> 00:45:51.993
Yes, that is what that current is.
878
00:45:53.460 --> 00:45:55.260
Perfect, thank you so much.
879
00:45:56.310 --> 00:45:57.143
All right.
880
00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:01.080
Okay, I will take the screen back.
881
00:46:01.080 --> 00:46:05.100
So if you haven't downloaded Allyson's bio
882
00:46:05.100 --> 00:46:07.290
from the chat box, you might wanna do that right now.
883
00:46:07.290 --> 00:46:09.510
And in that bio, you're gonna find some more information
884
00:46:09.510 --> 00:46:11.340
about Allyson and some links
885
00:46:11.340 --> 00:46:13.080
that might be of interest to you.
886
00:46:13.080 --> 00:46:16.470
And as Allyson said, please enter your questions
887
00:46:16.470 --> 00:46:19.320
into the chat box and we're gonna try to feed her
888
00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:22.050
as many as we can in the next few minutes.
889
00:46:22.050 --> 00:46:25.713
So Allyson, one of the questions that came across was,
890
00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:29.370
are there shipwrecks out there, iron ships,
891
00:46:29.370 --> 00:46:31.980
that are maybe better preserved than others?
892
00:46:31.980 --> 00:46:34.560
And what would be optimal conditions
893
00:46:34.560 --> 00:46:37.923
to actually preserve those ships?
894
00:46:39.330 --> 00:46:41.193
That's a good question.
895
00:46:44.190 --> 00:46:47.520
We do know that different environments
896
00:46:47.520 --> 00:46:51.963
result in different levels of preservation,
897
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:55.170
for iron and wood vessels.
898
00:46:55.170 --> 00:46:58.980
And so typically, the way it goes
899
00:46:58.980 --> 00:47:03.980
is the warmer, saltier waters are more degrading
900
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:11.840
than colder, fresher waters for a way to think about it.
901
00:47:12.120 --> 00:47:16.950
And the deeper it is, the less wave activity
902
00:47:16.950 --> 00:47:19.560
and physical processes are impacting the structure
903
00:47:19.560 --> 00:47:20.393
of the wreck.
904
00:47:21.427 --> 00:47:22.617
Okay, perfect.
905
00:47:22.617 --> 00:47:24.930
Now, what we're learning is that there's some differences
906
00:47:24.930 --> 00:47:27.330
or there's other factors that are influencing it.
907
00:47:27.330 --> 00:47:29.523
So it may look pretty solid,
908
00:47:30.420 --> 00:47:32.760
but there may be factors we don't understand.
909
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:35.940
The Titanic, I think is a great example of this.
910
00:47:35.940 --> 00:47:39.930
We thought that cold, deep water that it's in
911
00:47:39.930 --> 00:47:42.130
where it can't be touched by people
912
00:47:43.020 --> 00:47:45.060
would leave it pretty solid.
913
00:47:45.060 --> 00:47:47.370
But we're now understanding microbial corrosion
914
00:47:47.370 --> 00:47:49.920
a little bit more, which is contributing
915
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:53.250
to some of that collapse.
916
00:47:53.250 --> 00:47:56.070
So there's a lot of factors we still don't understand
917
00:47:56.070 --> 00:47:57.840
and how they work together.
918
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:00.873
So yeah, I hope that answers your question.
919
00:48:02.640 --> 00:48:03.473
All right.
920
00:48:03.473 --> 00:48:04.930
Mark, do you have another question?
921
00:48:05.910 --> 00:48:06.743
Yes.
922
00:48:06.743 --> 00:48:09.000
Can you talk a little bit more about the ratio
923
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.760
of the northbound wrecks versus the southbound wrecks?
924
00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:16.203
Like which side do we find more on and maybe why?
925
00:48:18.420 --> 00:48:23.400
We see a little bit more on the southbound
926
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:24.903
than the northbound.
927
00:48:25.740 --> 00:48:30.033
There are about 60, I think it was like 62 to 45,
928
00:48:31.500 --> 00:48:34.197
it broke down to 31% were traveling south,
929
00:48:34.197 --> 00:48:36.483
and 23% were traveling north.
930
00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:44.120
And that, I think, gets into the decisions
931
00:48:45.540 --> 00:48:47.220
that captains were having to make
932
00:48:47.220 --> 00:48:49.173
in terms of that southbound travel.
933
00:48:51.300 --> 00:48:54.330
If they're traveling from the north to the south,
934
00:48:54.330 --> 00:48:57.210
you've got more supplies that are being manufactured
935
00:48:57.210 --> 00:48:58.250
in the north, right?
936
00:48:58.250 --> 00:49:00.990
So they need to transport those goods to the south.
937
00:49:00.990 --> 00:49:04.683
And with that, captains are making decisions on where to go.
938
00:49:06.818 --> 00:49:10.500
And then the northbound ones,
939
00:49:10.500 --> 00:49:13.020
some may have swung way further,
940
00:49:13.020 --> 00:49:15.483
maybe the northbound ones were less,
941
00:49:17.070 --> 00:49:19.860
what's the word I'm looking for, apt to wreck,
942
00:49:19.860 --> 00:49:22.470
because they were a little bit further off
943
00:49:22.470 --> 00:49:25.020
or more experienced captains
944
00:49:25.020 --> 00:49:26.940
or they just happened to be traveling north
945
00:49:26.940 --> 00:49:29.070
at a specific time of year.
946
00:49:29.070 --> 00:49:34.070
I didn't look at comparing time of year to travel direction,
947
00:49:34.200 --> 00:49:36.633
which would be an interesting study to look at.
948
00:49:38.340 --> 00:49:43.340
But there were travel seasons and so the southbound ones,
949
00:49:44.790 --> 00:49:46.800
I think we're just seeing more southbound ones
950
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:49.020
just because of the sheer amount of manufacturing
951
00:49:49.020 --> 00:49:51.993
that was happening in the north to bring it to the south.
952
00:49:53.820 --> 00:49:55.470
And there may also be a temporal component.
953
00:49:55.470 --> 00:49:58.233
And again, I didn't get into this.
954
00:50:01.200 --> 00:50:02.793
Okay, thank you.
955
00:50:03.900 --> 00:50:07.470
Two questions that go hand in hand with each other.
956
00:50:07.470 --> 00:50:10.410
Somebody wants to know if there are any slave ships
957
00:50:10.410 --> 00:50:13.560
that were lost in that area.
958
00:50:13.560 --> 00:50:16.410
And second, are there any U-boats
959
00:50:16.410 --> 00:50:18.633
that might be lost in that area as well?
960
00:50:21.240 --> 00:50:26.240
I do not know if there are any slave ships.
961
00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:31.560
That's again, not to say that we don't know
962
00:50:31.560 --> 00:50:34.383
of all of the wrecks that wrecked in this area.
963
00:50:36.990 --> 00:50:37.890
As I said at the beginning,
964
00:50:37.890 --> 00:50:40.440
there could be more than 5,000 wrecks off of North Carolina.
965
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:44.013
That's just what we've been historically able to document.
966
00:50:45.300 --> 00:50:49.173
So there very well could be a slave ship out there,
967
00:50:50.190 --> 00:50:52.810
there very well could not be a slave ship out there
968
00:50:54.030 --> 00:50:55.983
off of the shores of North Carolina.
969
00:50:56.820 --> 00:51:01.820
U-boats, I do not believe in the immediate area
970
00:51:02.670 --> 00:51:04.440
that we are looking at there is a U-boat,
971
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:06.780
there are four off of North Carolina,
972
00:51:06.780 --> 00:51:09.690
but I think they're further north and further south
973
00:51:09.690 --> 00:51:13.050
than this immediate area, if I'm remembering
974
00:51:13.050 --> 00:51:14.300
where they are correctly.
975
00:51:15.930 --> 00:51:16.763
Okay.
976
00:51:16.763 --> 00:51:18.573
Mark, do you have another question?
977
00:51:20.700 --> 00:51:22.650
Yeah, I'm sorry, there's so many
978
00:51:22.650 --> 00:51:23.760
really good questions in the chat.
979
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:25.440
It's hard to pick one.
980
00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:30.440
So your chart earlier ended at the 1960s and 70s
981
00:51:30.990 --> 00:51:34.080
and I guess maybe this is more of a what is archeology
982
00:51:34.080 --> 00:51:38.070
versus what isn't, but is there anything to note,
983
00:51:38.070 --> 00:51:40.533
are there shipwrecks that have occurred more recently,
984
00:51:40.533 --> 00:51:44.040
80s, 90s, early 2000s?
985
00:51:44.040 --> 00:51:46.020
Do you look at those or are they notable
986
00:51:46.020 --> 00:51:47.120
or anything like that?
987
00:51:48.630 --> 00:51:50.910
Well, yes, there have been,
988
00:51:50.910 --> 00:51:54.930
there was one a few years ago that was stranded
989
00:51:54.930 --> 00:51:58.680
by Oregon Inlet that has since been removed
990
00:51:58.680 --> 00:52:00.780
in the last year.
991
00:52:00.780 --> 00:52:05.780
So in archeological sense, anything that is older
992
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:10.680
than 50 years is considered historic,
993
00:52:10.680 --> 00:52:13.200
which makes it open to archeological research.
994
00:52:13.200 --> 00:52:17.730
And so that's not to say there aren't wrecks
995
00:52:17.730 --> 00:52:20.339
that are happening today a lot,
996
00:52:20.339 --> 00:52:23.040
if they make it to that 50-year mark,
997
00:52:23.040 --> 00:52:27.060
that means that people have claimed everything.
998
00:52:27.060 --> 00:52:29.370
For the most part, people have gotten everything they want
999
00:52:29.370 --> 00:52:31.773
out of the wreck and have since left it alone.
1000
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:36.030
A lot of efforts are made to salvage vessels
1001
00:52:36.030 --> 00:52:38.490
or remove them for safety reasons,
1002
00:52:38.490 --> 00:52:42.090
considering that if they make it ashore
1003
00:52:42.090 --> 00:52:44.706
it's in Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
1004
00:52:44.706 --> 00:52:48.360
The vessel that came ashore a few years ago,
1005
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:50.880
they removed it for safety reasons
1006
00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:54.240
as that iron and steel was degrading.
1007
00:52:54.240 --> 00:52:57.660
They didn't want people climbing on it and getting hurt.
1008
00:52:57.660 --> 00:52:59.670
So that whole vessel was picked up
1009
00:52:59.670 --> 00:53:01.863
off the beach and scrapped.
1010
00:53:02.790 --> 00:53:04.650
So there are vessels
1011
00:53:04.650 --> 00:53:06.903
that are still wrecking out there today,
1012
00:53:08.010 --> 00:53:11.820
and we know about some of them,
1013
00:53:11.820 --> 00:53:13.110
we don't know about all of them.
1014
00:53:13.110 --> 00:53:18.040
We haven't studied many of them, but maybe one day
1015
00:53:19.380 --> 00:53:23.030
a young person listening to this talk could go study them.
1016
00:53:24.220 --> 00:53:26.040
There you go.
1017
00:53:26.040 --> 00:53:28.230
All right, Allyson, I think we have a time
1018
00:53:28.230 --> 00:53:29.700
for maybe one more question.
1019
00:53:29.700 --> 00:53:32.760
And this one may be a little complicated,
1020
00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:36.150
but answer it if you can.
1021
00:53:36.150 --> 00:53:37.830
So you study all of these wrecks
1022
00:53:37.830 --> 00:53:39.870
that are in the three-mile limit
1023
00:53:39.870 --> 00:53:42.570
of the North Carolina state waters.
1024
00:53:42.570 --> 00:53:46.980
And first off, why is it important to study them
1025
00:53:46.980 --> 00:53:49.650
and second off, what do you do with that information
1026
00:53:49.650 --> 00:53:51.453
once you gather it?
1027
00:53:53.460 --> 00:53:54.570
Yes.
1028
00:53:54.570 --> 00:53:58.703
So why we study shipwrecks, a lot of them,
1029
00:54:01.470 --> 00:54:05.140
even if we don't think about it, hold a history
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that we don't necessarily have in written record.
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While we do, in this case, have a lot of lifesaving stories
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of the Lifesaving Service coming in
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and helping people get off the vessels.
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What's left on the shipwrecks
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can inform our understanding of society at the time
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that we may not be able to piece together
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from a written record.
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And in some cases, they can show us technological advances.
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In some cases, they can show us
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what were the goods that people wanted.
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So for example, looking at the cargo of a blockade runner
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during the Civil War can show us what people
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really were driving for in that area, during that time.
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So they hold bits of information
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that we might not be able to piece together
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from the written record.
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And as to what we do with this information,
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once we've figured stuff out, we try to get it out
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to the public through talks like this,
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through article publications, depending on if artifacts
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were recovered or the amount of information we have
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can make it into museum displays.
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So I know the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
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out in Hatteras,
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their mission is to tell these wreck stories
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from the Outer Banks and they're currently in an overhaul,
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but I encourage you all to go out
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to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
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if you can get out there.
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And these stories are put on display
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to tell what happened and what we learned about the history
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of that time period.
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Okay, perfect.
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And that leads us into our next slide.
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If we did not get to your question
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or if you have additional ones,
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you can always send them to Allyson
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at the email address listed on the slide.
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You can also learn more about the North Carolina Office
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of State Archeology and all those shipwrecks
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that she's talking about and more at the URL
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that's listed there at the bottom of the slide.
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A video recording of this presentation
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will be made available
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on the sanctuary's webinar archive page.
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Found that the URL listed right here at the top.
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In addition, the webinar will be archived
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on Monitor National Marine Sanctuary's website.
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You can click on the multimedia section in the toolbar
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to access this webinar box.
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It usually takes about 10 days to be posted.
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You can also find future webinars in this same section.
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And don't worry, all of this information will be sent to you
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in a follow-up email once the recording is ready to view.
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And lastly, of course, we invite you
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to follow us on social media to stay in touch
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with what's happening in the sanctuary.
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And Mark, I'm gonna let you put a little plug here
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for the events that we have happening this week.
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Well, yes, we are joining Ironclad Distillery
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for their commemoration of the Battle of Hampton Roads,
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which will be Thursday from 3:00 to 8:00 PM
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and then we'll be having a family day at The Mariners Museum
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from 11:00 to 4:00.
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We'll be showing off a lot of the really cool
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outreach technology that we would be working on
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to try and bring the sanctuary into your hands.
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So I really encourage you all to come and visit us.
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All right, thank you, Mark.
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And lastly, as you exit the webinar,
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there is a short survey for formal and informal educators.
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If you are an educator, NOAA would really appreciate it
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if you would just take a minute or two
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to complete the survey.
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Your answers will help NOAA develop future webinars
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to meet your needs.
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And your participation is voluntary
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and your answers will be completely anonymous.
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So once again, Allyson, we really wanna thank you
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for an excellent presentation and thank all of you
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for taking the time to join us today.
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Have a wonderful day.
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And this concludes the presentation for all.