Valor in the Atlantic Media Preview

May 3, 2022

NOAA and partners hosted a briefing to provide the media with a preview of the upcoming Valor in the Atlantic Telepresence Expedition. The mission will document the USS Monitor and other notable shipwrecks off the North Carolina coast that represent our nation's naval innovation from the Civil War to World War II. This will be the first in-depth multidisciplinary survey of the Monitor since NOAA and the Navy recovered the iconic ship's gun turret in 2002.

From May 15 through May 25, 2022, the public can tune in as NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary partners with the Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration, NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, and the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology to conduct the expedition. The mission will use state-of-the-art underwater drones and other technologies to explore historic shipwrecks within and surrounding Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, and understand the role they now play as living reefs. With NOAA Ship Nancy Foster as the research platform, the expedition will be live-streamed in real time to the public.