But Turcik’s biggest catch at Mallows Bay may be the photo he took there in 2016. Last week it was released on a postage stamp, one of 16 Forever stamps honoring the National Marine Sanctuary ...

It’s a sunny morning in August and Mallows Bay is far from spooky. My group of 18 paddlers is eager to explore the new Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary in Charles County, Md.

The shapes emerge at low tide. They are more than 100 sunken World War I era steamships, the ghost fleet of Mallows Bay, on the Potomac just 40 miles from DC. The outlines of the hulls telling a ...