This Civil War Submarine Vanished for 136 Years

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  @AskAMortician · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @quenepacrossing4675 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The mere concept of a submarine deep in the ocean only lit by candles and only powered by hand cranking deeply upsets my soul in a way i did not expect. That is the scariest shit i’ve ever heard.

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  @revenantband1 · 1 year ago

  History is not supposed to be comfortable. It&apos;s supposed to be truthful. The Hunley should be made as public as possible. It doesn&apos;t glorify slavery or the Civil War to do so.

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  @acynonyx · 2 years ago

  Was NOT ready for the reveal that Caitlin is SIX FOOT ONE

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  @dudedoer7814 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiDThvhadss&amp;t=389">6:29</a> is one of the many reasons I love museums. They heard the exit hatches were 20” wide and made replicas out of plywood so that people can see if they would have been able to escape the death submarine. Where else do you get that kind of hands-on educational experience

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  @daltonwilson2553 · 2 years ago

  Caitlin just entered her “middle aged dad history buff” era and I’m all here for it

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  @travisfletcher182 · 2 years ago

  I was talking with my boss at work and he just casually drops the facts that he was one of the head divers that recovered the Hunley did research and sure enough his name is credited as such . What a &nbsp;fucking legend

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  @clinkerclint · 2 years ago

  Fun story, I was a part of the crew that raised her in the summer of 2000. &nbsp; Something not mentioned in the video is that all of the dirt/muck around the sub was sucked up through tubing and ran through a sluice box on the boat we were working off of. &nbsp;I was watching the sluice boxes one day and this bent, shinny gold thing about the size of a half dollar shows up. &nbsp; I was SO EXCITED!!! &nbsp;I just KNEW I had found the gold coin! &nbsp; I grabbed it and ran it to the archeologist working in the trailer that day....Well, it wasn&apos;t the gold coin but I had found a part of a pump that was eating itself alive. &nbsp; I sure was excited for a minute &nbsp; &nbsp; 😆

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  @clownschoolvaledictorian · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiDThvhadss&amp;t=2055">34:15</a> &quot;Maria Jacobsen has the distinction of being the first person to enter the sub since 1874&quot; and one of the only people to exit it...

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  @silirat · 2 years ago

  &quot;Yay! My favourite mortician!&quot; is not a phrase that I ever expected to say, let alone honestly mean. <br> <br>But here we are.

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  @nathanjasper512 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Sir the submarine Corp has sunk, and the camel Corp has run away.&quot;<br><br>&quot;Well, now I&apos;m afraid to even ask you about the elephant corp.&quot;

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  @rocbolt · 2 years ago

  In middle school (90s) we were learning about the civil war and I mentioned the Hunley which I thought was the coolest thing ever and was told a civil war submarine was not a thing! How preposterous! I had to bring an armful of books in the next day to prove it and got to be smug the rest of the year

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