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Detail from NOAA nautical chart 12300 showing the Nantucket Shoals in relation to Nantucket Island.. Nantucket Shoals is an area of dangerously shallow water in the Atlantic Ocean that extends from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, eastward for 23 miles (37 km) and southeastward for 40 miles (64 km); in places water depth can be as shallow as 3 feet (0.91 m). [1]
Nantucket Shoals (1975 – 1983) Sold to private owner, operational and available for charter. She is the last lightship to be decommissioned by the coast guard. [67] Lightship WLV-613: 1952: 1983: Ambrose Channel (1952 – 1967) Relief (1967 – 1979) Nantucket Shoals (1979 – 1983) Sold to private owner.
Monomoy Shoals is a set of shoals (shallow, sandy ocean bottom) off Monomoy Point (which is in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod). It lies in the Atlantic Ocean just outside Nantucket Sound. Constituent named shoals include: [1] Bearse Shoal; Handkerchief Shoal; Little Round Shoal; Stonehorse Shoal
The location of the Nantucket Shoals lightship station at the southern edge of the shoals. The station named Nantucket or Nantucket Shoals was served by a number of lightvessels (also termed lightships) that marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals south of Nantucket Island. The vessels, given numbers as their "name," had the station name painted ...
Nantucket Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is 30 miles (48 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide, and is enclosed by Cape Cod on the north, Nantucket on the south, and Martha's Vineyard on the west. [ 1 ]
New England Aquarium researchers spotted one group of migrating right whales on Feb. 20 in the Great South Channel, an area east of Nantucket between the Nantucket Shoals and Georges Bank.
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The plane dumped fuel over Nantucket Sound. A transatlantic cargo plane made an emergency return to New York after a horse got out of its stall. The plane dumped fuel over Nantucket Sound.