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The National Marine Sanctuary Program, created in 1972 under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, conserves and protects the national deepest treasures. In 1975, the USS Monitor wreck site became the first national marine sanctuary. Since then twelve more sites have been added, covering about 20,000 square miles of ocean and Great Lakes waters.
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31403
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The ironclad warship U.S.S. Monitor sank off the North Carolina coast in 1862 while being towed to Beaufort for an attack on Wilmington. In 1973, researchers located the Monitor shipwreck southeast of Cape Hatteras. Follow-up expeditions resulted in the designation of the Monitor shipwreck as the nation’s first national marine sanctuary.
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