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The CSS Hunley

utbrowningmanutbrowningman Member Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭
edited January 2012 in General Discussion
This is on my list to see next time I'm back east.

http://news.yahoo.com/complete-civil-war-submarine-unveiled-first-time-004714070.html
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  • Joe DreesJoe Drees Member Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    22 million well spent ! A national treasure, for sure !
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  • River RatRiver Rat Member Posts: 9,022 ✭
    edited November -1
    Wow. That's pretty darn amazing. Talk about guts -- to climb into that thing, head out to see, submerge, and sink an enemy vessel.
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've seen the turret and propeller from the USS Monitor in Virgina and visiting the CSS Hunley is also on my "bucket list". I just hope my bucket is deep enough!

    It would be nice if TBS rebroadcasts "The Hunley". That was a good and very informative movie.
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  • minitruck83minitruck83 Member Posts: 5,369
    edited November -1
    Noticed that Clive Cussler is trying to grab all the credit.


    No mention of Mark Newell of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology who was the actual director of the project, or Lee Spence, who discovered the site in 1970.
    Dr Newell's official report states that he used Spences maps, and credits him with the discovery.
    Guess it was asking too much for yahoo to be accurate. [V]


    Far as I can find, Cussler was on hand to watch the sub break water in 2000.



    Allen
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  • tccoxtccox Member Posts: 7,379 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got to see them monitor's turret and the Hunley on my trip last year. A life long dream come true. Well, at least after they raised them! Tom
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  • m88.358winm88.358win Member Posts: 7,269 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Its amazing that this piece of history survives. Yet I wonder how long it will be before someone or some group starts claiming it as racist and asks it be hidden from the public ?
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It was an amazing look into the future when they built that. It had ballast tanks that could be emptied and filled with pumps operated by the crew as well as fully controllable dive planes. It had a compass for navigation, although reports said it was untrustworthy due to the iron construction of the vessel. It even had an oxygen level detection system (a candle) to tell them when to surface for more air. (When there isn't enough O2 to keep even a candle lit, it is DEFINITELY time to open a hatch. [:D]) All of this without printed circuit boards and microchips. You have to give them credit for a remarkable piece of engineering.
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