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Archaeologist Harry Pecorelli working around the ballast pipes, valves, and forward bulkhead.
Surprise Hunley find
Plumbing system provides new clues for solving mystery
BY BRIAN HICKS
Of The Post and Courier Staff
The final moments of the H.L. Hunley's last crew may be recorded in a complex network of plumbing hidden deep in the Confederate submarine's hull.
Archaeologists are hesitant to label the newly discovered pipes and valves as a bilge pump system, or even characterize it as a potential smoking gun, but the find offers some hope of unraveling the mystery of the Hunley's disappearance Feb. 17, 1864.
"If this turns out to be a bilge system, it is one of the things we thought the Hunley lacked]
Edited By TMSmalley on 1090769416
Archaeologist Harry Pecorelli working around the ballast pipes, valves, and forward bulkhead.
Surprise Hunley find
Plumbing system provides new clues for solving mystery
BY BRIAN HICKS
Of The Post and Courier Staff
The final moments of the H.L. Hunley's last crew may be recorded in a complex network of plumbing hidden deep in the Confederate submarine's hull.
Archaeologists are hesitant to label the newly discovered pipes and valves as a bilge pump system, or even characterize it as a potential smoking gun, but the find offers some hope of unraveling the mystery of the Hunley's disappearance Feb. 17, 1864.
"If this turns out to be a bilge system, it is one of the things we thought the Hunley lacked]
Edited By TMSmalley on 1090769416
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