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Swan Quarter
National Wildlife Refuge has gracious old cedars lining the way.
Ocracoke and North Carolina Highway 12 to the Ocracoke-Hatteras ferry
for passage to Hatteras Island and points north.
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Early morning at
Capt. Arts Dive Store where in 1992 anyone could dive on the Monitor.
It was discovercy in a 1973 oceanographic expedition from Duke
University some 17 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras. Verification of
the Monitor's identity was made in 1974 and the Monitor was placed on
the National Register of Historic Places. On January 30, 1975, the
Monitor was designated as the first National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA has
been recovering most of what was left of the Monitor since 2001.
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The Monitor is
located, depending on what time of the year you dive between 170 and
200 feet. Mixed gases are requred to dive to that depth and only for
very short periods. To dive the monitor NOAA divers Divers lived in a
chamber for 2 wks at a time saturated with a gas mixture of 85 percent
helium and 15 percent oxygen.
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Cape Hatteras
Lighthouse is the tallest in the nation and famous symbol of North
Carolina. It was built with 1,250,000 bricks baked in kilns along the
James River in Virginia and brought in scows into Cape Creek where it
was hauled by oxen one mile to the building site in Buxton. I took this picture in 1992.
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A picutre before
moving. In the summer of 1999, as the ever-encroaching waters of the
Atlantic Ocean threaten this stalwart structure, the Cape Hatteras
Light was moved from its original location! The physical moving of the
lighthouse was completed on July 9, 1999 with the last brick of the
brick foundation being placed at 3:33 PM on Tuesday, September 14th.
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Located along
Highway 12 south on Hatteras Island, the Cape Hatteras Light is the
most recognized, photographed, painted, read about and admired
lighthouse in North America and is a National Historic Landmark.
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This was taken
from the dunes just beside the Hatteras Lighthouse in 1992. Long before
the lighthouse was moved. The surf and storms had washed to within feet
of the lighthouse.
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The oldest
lighthouse still in operation in North Carolina, and one of the oldest
on the Eastern coast of the United States, it was built by Noah Porter
for $11,359.35 in 1823. At seventy-five feet, it is the shortest
lighthouse on the North Carolina Coast and can be only be seen for 14
miles. Situated on one of Ocracoke Island's highest spots, it has
survived numerous hurricanes.
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