Tourists are getting trapped on remote Shark Island off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, park warns

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Multiple tourists have become trapped on a treacherous island off the North Carolina coast this month, forcing the National Park Service to coordinate highly risky rescues, park rangers say. Visiting the ominously named Shark Island could get you killed, Cape Lookout National Seashore warned Monday in a news release. “Recently, the gap in between Shark Island and Cape Lookout has begun to connect with a narrow bar of sand during the lowest of low tides,” officials said. “In the last two weeks, we have had two separate incidents of visitors crossing to Shark Island at low tide...