For the inactive lighthouse on the Diamond Shoals, see Diamond Shoal Light. For the thoroughbred racehorse, see Diamond Shoal.
The Diamond Shoals are an infamous, always-shifting cluster of shallow, underwater sandbars that extend eight miles (13 km) out from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States.[1] Hidden beneath the waves and constantly changing in both form and depth, the shoals are believed to be responsible for up to 600 shipwrecks along the Cape Hatteras shoreline, an area commonly known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic".[2]
Diamond Shoals is composed of three distinct shoals, collectively designated as Diamond Shoals. From the shore seaward, the individual shoals and channels are:
Hatteras Shoals
Hatteras Slough
Inner Diamond Shoals
Diamond Slough
Outer Diamond Shoals[3]
^"Lost to the Perils of the Sea". US National Park Service. March 19, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
^"Diamond Shoals". OuterBanks.com. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
^"Cape Hatteras Light Station". Cape Hatteras National Seashore. National Park Service. January 19, 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
Atlantic". DiamondShoals is composed of three distinct shoals, collectively designated as DiamondShoals. From the shore seaward, the individual shoals and...
DiamondShoal (6 May 1979 – ca.1996) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed some promise as a two-year-old, winning two of his six races...
Atlantic. Over 600 ships wrecked here as victims of shallow shoals, storms, and war. DiamondShoals, a bank of shifting sand ridges hidden beneath the turbulent...
this area made for excellent travel for ships, except in the area of DiamondShoals, just offshore at Cape Hatteras. Nearby, the warm Gulf Stream ocean...
five-masted schooner, Captain W. B. Wormell, found aground and abandoned at DiamondShoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 1925: December 1, SS Cotopaxi,...
came at great expense to existing aids to navigation. In 1826, the DiamondShoals Lightship, off the coast of North Carolina, slipped her moorings in...
Frying Pan Shoals Light Station is a decommissioned Coast Guard lighthouse located near the end of the Frying Pan Shoals 32 miles (51 km) SE of Bald Head...
five-masted schooner built in 1919, was found hard aground and abandoned at DiamondShoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on 31 January 1921. FBI investigation...
schooner; foundered in a storm near DiamondShoals Lightship. George Weems 20 May 1909 Burned and sank off Frying Pan Shoals. Glanayron United Kingdom 22 May...
After the sinking of the SS Merak by the German submarine U-104 near DiamondShoals, North Carolina LV-71 rescued the survivors but was sunk as well shortly...
city of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the location of several famous 1960s soul recording studios including FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in...
gun, one 12-pounder anti-aircraft gun and six machine guns. While off DiamondShoals on the night of January 23, 1942, U-66 under Robert-Richard Zapp detected...
States. Along the Outer Banks, navigational challenges posed by the DiamondShoals area off Cape Hatteras, caused the loss of thousands of ships and an...
since the Cape Hatteras Light protects ships from DiamondShoals and should therefore have the diamond pattern. However, the daymark patterns were randomly...
and logbook were missing when she was found on 31 January 1921 at the DiamondShoals, off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The final voyage of...
of the lost in combat was DiamondShoal Lightship No. 71. On August 6, she was patrolling off North Carolina's DiamondShoals when she encounter a sinking...
September 1923 DiamondShoals, Cape Hatteras Upside down in 320 feet of water. USS Virginia United States Navy 5 September 1923 DiamondShoals, Cape Hatteras...
started in 1972, when it began a long association with the diamond company De Beers. The word "Diamond" was added to the race's title when permission for its...
March – Greek freighter Kassandra Louloudi sunk by U-124 four mile off DiamondShoals gas buoy 17 March – Honduran freighter Ceiba sunk by U-124 at 35°43′N...
Capes and then a heavy sea about 75 nautical miles (139 km) east of DiamondShoals. Her forward hold began to leak, and she radioed the United States Coast...
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