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Advance II
The Advance II lies about eight nautical miles out from the Oregon Inlet sea buoy. The 185-foot ship lies on a sandy bottom at 80 feet. This dive spot is a popular training and certification dive with Nags Head dive operators.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Dionysus
In 1978, the Dionysus was deployed as an artificial reef in AR-160 close to the Liberty Ship, Zane Grey. AR-160 lies four miles southeast from the Oregon Inlet sea buoy. Depths range from 40-80 feet.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Empire Gem
The Empire Gem, sunk by a U-Boat in 1942, rests in 160 feet of water and rises 30 feet off the bottom. This is a dive for experienced, advanced, wreck divers.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Hyde
In May of 1988, the 215-foot Hyde was deployed by the NC Department of Marine Fisheries in AR-386 located about 15 miles off Wrightsville Beach.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Markham
The Markham is a 320-foot US Army Corps of Engineers dredge that was sunk in the Artificial Reef area AR-386 close to the Hyde dredge.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Normannia
The Danish freighter, Normannia, served less than thirty years before meeting its demise on the Frying Pan Shoals forty miles offshore of southern North Carolina.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Papoose
On the night of March 18, 1942, the Papoose was returning to Corpus Christi when she was struck on her port side by a Torpedo. The ship capsized and sank to the bottom at about 120 feet 30 miles southeast of Morehead City. Today, the ship rests upsid
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Proteus Wreck
In August 1918, the Proteus collided with a tanker off Cape Hatteras and now rests in 125 feet of water about 25 miles south of the Hatteras Inlet.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Spar, U.S.C.G.
The 183-foot Coast Guard buoy tender was deployed in June 2004 in the Carteret County Sportfishing Artificial Reef (AR-305). The Spar lies just over 20 miles from the Beaufort Inlet sea buoy, approximately 30 miles offshore of Morehead City.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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Suloide
On March 26, 1943, the freighter Suloide ran aground on the wreckage of the W.E. Hutton, a tanker sunk just one year earlier by the notorious U-124. The Suloide now lies in 65 feet of water southeast or Morehead City.
Carteret region, North-Carolina
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