Alligator Hunt

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with support from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research, is on the hunt for the Alligator—the U.S. Navy’s first submarine.

Based in Ocracoke, N.C., the 2004 NOAA-ONR expedition is taking place August 22-30 off Cape Hatteras, N.C. in the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” where the Civil War-era vessel was lost during a fierce storm in 1863.

Built in Philadelphia in 1862...