Cape Hatteras Diamond Shoals. Diamond Shoals is a complex of sand shoals extending 40 km seaward from Cape Hatteras Point North Carolina and it is hypothesized that Diamond Shoals represents a major regional sink for sand derived from the coast to the north of Cape Hatteras. Description OCEANFRONT Hatteras - Hatteras Landing DIAMOND SHOALS is the perfect oceanfront getaway.
Later that evening the wind died in the butt and I motored around hatteras. I was on the slope of the continental shelf. Hatteras visits shipwrecks located from north of the Diamond Shoals and south to the waters off Ocrakoke Island.
Heading to New York.
The best weather to go in If you meant off Diamond Shoals off Cape H then as Greayhound says keep out. To follow coastal trade routes thousands of these vessels had to round not only North Carolinas barrier islands which lie 30 miles off the mainland but also the infamous Diamond Shoals a treacherous always-shifting series of shallow underwater sandbars extending eight miles out from Cape Hatteras. It took four years to complete and was lit in the Fall of 1803. While a light was exhibited from the cape itself from 1804 its range was insufficient and a lightship was stationed on the shoal itself in 1824.
