Podcast: The Black Surfmen Behind One of the Greatest Water Rescues Ever

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast , we visit the Outer Banks of North Carolina and unearth some surprising history about a place known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic because of how many shipwrecks have occurred there. It was also home to early efforts at lifesaving and a precursor to the U.S. Coast Guard. Kelly McEvers: If you drive down the coast of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, you get to a point where you get the feeling you're going nowhere. You're on a single-lane road and civilization just st

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