[color=#000080]Hunley senior conservator Paul Mardikian places a plastic covering over an opening in the submarine made when scientists removed a hull plate from the submarine's forward ballast tank in July.
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Hunley mystery outlasts excavation
Why sub sank still baffles scientists
BY SCHUYLER KROPF
Of The Post and Courier Staff
What's left when a sunken submarine is finally cleared of tons of pudding-like mud, the bones of eight men and a collection of 3,000 artifacts?
A still unsolved mystery.
Three years after it was raised off Sullivan's Island, archaeologists continue to be baffled as to what caused the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley to sink.
But they have finished the sub's excavation. The final scoops of mud and seashells came out of the hard-to-reach fore and aft ballast tanks this week, clearing the sub's cramped insides all the way to the floor.
With the goo finally out, the Hunley team is ready to start the next phase]
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Hunley mystery outlasts excavation
Why sub sank still baffles scientists
BY SCHUYLER KROPF
Of The Post and Courier Staff
What's left when a sunken submarine is finally cleared of tons of pudding-like mud, the bones of eight men and a collection of 3,000 artifacts?
A still unsolved mystery.
Three years after it was raised off Sullivan's Island, archaeologists continue to be baffled as to what caused the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley to sink.
But they have finished the sub's excavation. The final scoops of mud and seashells came out of the hard-to-reach fore and aft ballast tanks this week, clearing the sub's cramped insides all the way to the floor.
With the goo finally out, the Hunley team is ready to start the next phase]
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