Tracking Snowbirds: Communities Consider Economic Boom from Boaters

What do transient boaters plying the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway want? Research funded by North Carolina Sea Grant seeks to understand what draws boaters passing through on the ICW into adjacent communities. ...

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The Coastal Wave of Life

Head shoreward to learn about North Carolina's ocean economy and to discover a coastal wave of life....

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Getting the Message Out about Rip Currents

North Carolina Sea Grant teamed up with meteorologists at the National Weather Service’s Wilmington Office to promote Rip Current Awareness Week....

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Creating an In-Sea Museum

John W. “Billy Ray” Morris and Greg Stratton from the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology’s Underwater Archaeology Branch present plans to turn the Condor shipwreck site into an in-sea museum, open to all divers. Just remember to "take pictures, leave bubbles," they say. This is part of an effort to create a heritage diving trail along the state's coast. ...

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