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Watch offers clues to sub commander
Scientists peer carefully back into time
BY SCHUYLER KROPF
Of The Post and Courier Staff
The gold pocket watch belonging to Confederate submarine Hunley commander Lt. George Dixon stopped between 6 and 9 o'clock, but scientists warn that doesn't mean much in pinpointing the time the sub went down.
BRAD NETTLES/STAFFPHOTO
H. L. Hunley Senior Archaeologist, Maria Jacobsen, points to an X-Ray, where the metal ring on Lt. George Dixon's pocket watch held the crystal in place.
For starters, the watch might have continued to tick for hours after Dixon and the rest of the crew succumbed to their fate, either by suffocating or drowning inside.
Another factor]Charleston Post and Courier Hunley Story 3/08/03[/url]
Edited By TMSmalley on 1047485050
Scientists peer carefully back into time
BY SCHUYLER KROPF
Of The Post and Courier Staff
The gold pocket watch belonging to Confederate submarine Hunley commander Lt. George Dixon stopped between 6 and 9 o'clock, but scientists warn that doesn't mean much in pinpointing the time the sub went down.
BRAD NETTLES/STAFFPHOTO
H. L. Hunley Senior Archaeologist, Maria Jacobsen, points to an X-Ray, where the metal ring on Lt. George Dixon's pocket watch held the crystal in place.
For starters, the watch might have continued to tick for hours after Dixon and the rest of the crew succumbed to their fate, either by suffocating or drowning inside.
Another factor]Charleston Post and Courier Hunley Story 3/08/03[/url]
Edited By TMSmalley on 1047485050