Hunley" is important because it was the first submarine in the history of the entire world to sink an enemy ship. Although not meant for navigational purposes, this map is additional proof that I found the Hunley long before the SCIAA/NUMA expedition dug it up in 1995. A win on my part would have discredited Cussler’s claims and would have effectively credited me with the discovery. 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From the relative lack of recent growth on the exposed portions of the hull, the wreck had clearly just been exposed by shifting sands. They obviously dismissed them thinking they were of little no consequence. The Hunley rammed the Housatonic to embed the torpedo in her hull and then reversed course while the lanyard connected to the torpedo fuse tightened and detonated it. The Wreck I did not release anything to the media about my discovery until half a decade had passed and I realized that, without public interest and pressure, GSA would never issue the necessary permit. There was no obligation to immediately blare to the world that the SCIAA/NUMA expedition had dug it up and taken pictures of it. [8], When the Hunley was brought to the Lasch Conservation Center, it had over 1,200 pounds of concretion on its outer hull, in some places on the hull the concretion was over an inch thick. The question is: “Who found it first?” My answer is: “I did and, when I found it, I went swimming to surface screaming I’ve found the Hunley.”. I even encouraged Wilbanks (who used to work for SCIAA) to explain my map to the other expedition members and get them to go to my site and check it out. The nomination referenced the Hunley’s discovery as reported by the Sea Research Society. On February 17, 1864, the Hunley destroyed the Union sloop Housatonic outside Charleston Harbor using a spar-mounted torpedo loaded with 135 pounds of gunpowder. Conservators work to clean away the layer of sand, shells and sea life that collected on the Hunley during the almost 136 years the submarine spent on the sea floor. © Edward L. Spence. However, his mask fit me poorly and I couldn’t even get into his wetsuit or fins. And, since it ultimately proved to be at Spence mapped location, which was not where anyone would have expected to find it based solely on the historical evidence, Dr. Newell believes Dr. Spence found it in 1970, just as Spence has been saying all along. Remember, to protect the Hunley, I had not told the press about its discovery during the first five years of my negotiating with the government for permission to raise it. Hunley hull being revealed after almost 150 years", "Hull of Confederate sub H.L. Dr. Spence has always believed the South Carolina Hunley Commission’s crediting of Cussler with the discovery of the Hunley was politically motivated. The discovery of Hunley has been claimed by two different individuals. "There's no sign of panic on board.". Perhaps Cussler’s claims are best explained by his peculiar definition of discovery. Lasch accepted the challenge in 1997 and became the chairman of the Friends of the Hunley.[3]. I say they didn’t discover it because I had already published the wreck’s correct location and it was no longer lost to be discovered. That five year wait proves beyond all reasonable doubt that Spence was not claiming discovery just to grab credit and headlines. & World Report” credited E. Lee Sppence as the first person to find the Hunley and gave the year as 1970, which was 25 years before Cussler. So how could we both have discovered it? His definition is a stretch by any means and does not fit with my definition of discovery and I doubt that it does with that of most rational people. I also believe that many of those fine people were intentionally mislead about the facts by a small but influential group of people who had personal, financial and/or political motives. Researchers at the University of Michigan found it would have only taken 50-75 gallons of water to drag the Hunley to the ocean floor, according to a. This decorative map, “Civil War Shipwrecks of Charleston South Carolina 1861-1865,” is one that I drew and published in 1984. Cussler claims to have discovered it in 1995, and Spence says he discovered it in 1970 but failed to validate the discovery by diving in the location.

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