Dan Spaventa and his wife and three children live outside of Philadelphia, PA. Dan is employed by a financial services firm in the Philadelphia area working in the product and solutions development area. Dan has an MBA in Finance from Drexel University and a BA in Accounting from Franklin & Marshall College.

Dan and his family have been vacationing in the Outer Banks of North Carolina since 1991. The family instantly feel in love with the Outer Banks and consider it a second home. The Spaventa family owns two rental properties in the Outer Banks, one purchased in 2002 and the other built in 2006. Through the process, Dan has made many friends with people who live on the Outer Banks, and who have shared an Outer Banks not readily seen by the average vacationer.

At the beginning of 2009, Dan decided to build a website, called Outer Banks Revealed, to share the Outer Banks that he and his family have come to realize. In addition to writing much of the content, Dan was also able to get some of the people who has has met and befriended to share some of their stories and love for the Outer Banks. You will find the realization of this at Outer Banks Revealed.

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The waters off of the Outer Banks have long been recognized as some of the most treacherous anywhere, earning it the nickname, "Graveyard of the Atlantic". To combat this and to aid ships in distress,...