A: If you go to east coast beaches like Morehead, Virginia Beech, Myrtle Beach you know that the water is not usually too clear. It's still fun to jump in, ride the waves and enjoy the sunshine, but it would be nice to be able to see the bottom as well.
Well, now we come to the gulf-stream. Between 10 and 20 miles off shore of Morehead City, NC, a band of warm, clear, blue, Caribbean-like water can be found. The gulf-stream is dozens of miles of wide and is part of global "conveyor belt" of water that makes it way around the oceans of the world. The East coast of the US is lucky enough to be close to one of the warm parts of this aquatic conveyor belt - the water having come from Africa, moved East toward the Caribbean and then North up the East coast of the US on it's way toward Iceland.
So, what does all this mean for SCUBA divers. It's means fantastic wreck diving off Morehead City! Even 30 miles off the coast the depth is still very much within the range of recreational SCUBA limits. So off we go to see what's on the bottom of the ocean. Wrecks! Old wrecks, new wrecks, big wrecks and small wrecks. We dive old ships, and even old World War II German U-boat. The water is warm and clear, the wrecks are big, and the sea life is plentiful. Old ships wrecks provide large artificial environements for sea life and they take advantage of it at every opportunity.