W.W. Hutton; Cape Lookout, NC

Cape Lookout, NC | 2014-Jul-15

Initial Notification: On 15 July 2014 a private individual (fisherman) filed an National Response Center report after observing an oil approximately 48 miles offshore of Cape Lookout, NC. On July 17, 2014, a USCG C-130 aircraft flew over the site and confirmed the presence of a sheen in the same vicinity as that reported by the private individual. Based on the location and the temporal and geographical persistence of the sheens, the oil is likely from a sunken wreck. The USCG contacted the NOAA SSC to review historical information in NOAA databases on the many WWII era wrecks in the area.