Product Details

• Format: Color, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: November 1, 1997
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• ASIN: 1888285125
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #490,898 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In just a few places among the world's oceans have a confluence of wind and water, geography and human endeavor combined to change the course of history. The mere mention of these places struck instant fear in the hearts of mariners - Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, and especially Cape Hatteras - home to the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The 182 mile stretch of North Carolina's Outer Banks from Currituck Beach to Cape Lookout has produced over 1,000 documented shipwrecks, one of the greatest densities of vessels lost in the world.

Part II of the Graveyard of the Atlantic video series reviews the shipwrecks of the tumultuous 20th century, from the unsolved mystery of the Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals and the carnage wrought by German submarines during two world wars through dramatic US Coast Guard rescues of the '90's. Residents tell first hand accounts of burning ships at sea and the strange and ironic stories of Jim Baugham Gaskill and the steamer Kyzikes. Included is rare film footage of defenseless sailing ships, torpedoed and sinking under full sail and General Billy Mitchell's amazing 1923 demonstration of the lethal potential of air power.