Exploring North Carolina Shipwrecks

August 3, 2021

Dive beneath North Carolina waters with Joe Poe, a skilled diver and an exceptional photographer, who has been exploring North Carolina shipwrecks for more than 40 years. See beautiful underwater photos, and hear about his unique and interesting experiences diving on the USS Monitor, World War II shipwrecks, and more.

Learn more about our nation's sanctuary system, Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, and the work NOAA is doing to document and survey many of the shipwrecks surrounding the USS Monitor. This webinar is part of the 2021 Get Into Your Sanctuary event.

Joe Poe resides in Durham, North Carolina, and serves as the Recreational Dive seat and Vice Chair of Monitor National Marine Sanctuary's Advisory Council. Joe is a member, and former chairman, of the Board of Directors of the Divers Alert Network (DAN), Inc. and serves on the boards of numerous other diving organizations. Joe has dived all over the world and in his other life, he is a trial lawyer and member of the New York, North Carolina, and Federal bar organizations.