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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]
Shoals and sandbanks of the southern North Sea, Dover Strait and the eastern English Channel Name Country Location Coordinates at centre of bank or shoal Orientation Length, km Width, km Remarks Akkaertbank Belgium SNS 51°23’N 02°49’E SW-NE 7.4 0.5 Aldeburgh Napes UK SNS 52°09’N 01°43’E S-N 10 1 Aldeburgh Ridge UK SNS
Essex departed from Nantucket on August 12, 1819, on what was expected to be a roughly two-and-a-half-year voyage to the whaling grounds off the west coast of South America. The route towards Cape Horn was an indirect one dictated by the prevailing winds of the Atlantic Ocean .
A steam-powered ocean liner that collided with Florida south of Nantucket Island: Stephano United Kingdom: 8 October 1916 Torpedoed by and sunk by U-53, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east-north-east of Nantucket. U-550 Kriegsmarine: 16 April 1944
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.
The ship was thought to have sunk southeast of Nantucket Shoals off Massachusetts. The dive team from Atlantic Wreck Salvage , however, located the vessel farther out to sea, on the Georges Bank ...
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 ...
The vessel was previously believed to have sunk southeast of Nantucket Shoals, according to the Asbury Park Press, but the D/V Tenacious team found the wreck on Georges Bank, about 200 miles from ...