POV: You're scuba diving on the shipwreck of the USS Monitor off the coast of Cape Hatteras 🤿 - The iron-hulled Monitor was the first truly modern warship, and its 1862 duel with the Confederate ironclad Virginia was pivotal in naval history. The Monitor's career was short, however. Virtually unscathed in battle, it sank during a storm near Cape Hatteras, on New Years Eve, just 11 months after launch. Here at the NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island, we have a scale model of the USS Monitor in our two

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