North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores

The Pine Knoll Shores aquarium is one of several of the North Carolina Aquariums.  The main exhibit is a replica of  a U-352, a German submarine that lost a World War II battle with a Coast Guard cutter off the North Carolina coast. This exhibit has the larger animals and schooling fish.  Notable among them are sand tiger sharks, a green moray eel measuring about six feet long, a goliath grouper approaching four feet, and a number of sizable nurse sharks, sandbar sharks and various game fishes.