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there are shoals that formed at the mouth of the Cape Fear River south of Wilmington, NC. Those shoals are shaped like a frying pan, and are called frying pan shoals. NOAA put a C-Man weather station tower/light tower out there on the tip of the shoals to gather weather information, and to warn of the shallow shoals. The NOAA tower is C-Man station "FPSN-7". There is great diving out on the shoals, shallow carribean-like diving (blue warm water, tropical fish, benthic animals, sharks, etc) I dive out there on the shoals....that is where my first ocean dive took place. Therefore I am "fpsndiver" although fpsdiver would have worked too. There!
Tom