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A team of NOAA Scientists and some 100 elite Navy divers raised the Monitor's 120-ton turret on August 5, 2002. The turret is one of the heaviest relics ever raised from the ocean floor, and its silt-filled interior housed many well-preserved Civil War artifacts.

Photograph by William Swift, National Geographic Television and Film

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