{"id":1234,"date":"2015-07-20T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T13:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=575"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:59:39","slug":"centuries-old-shipwreck-discovered-off-nc-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/2015\/07\/centuries-old-shipwreck-discovered-off-nc-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past Uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"
Scanning sonar from a scientific expedition has revealed the remains of a previously unknown shipwreck more than a mile deep off the North Carolina coast. Artifacts on the wreck indicate it might date to the American Revolution.<\/p>\n
Marine scientists from North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of Oregon discovered the wreck on July 12 during a research expedition aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) research ship Atlantis.<\/p>\n
They spotted the wreck while using WHOI\u2019s robotic autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry and the manned submersible Alvin. The team had been searching for a mooring that was deployed on a previous research trip in the area in 2012.<\/p>\n