New clues from the H.L. Hunley...
It seems that scientists may be closer to finding the solution to the nearly 160-year-old puzzle to why the Confederate submarine Hunley foundered and went down outside Charleston Harbor in 1864.
No shock wave. No gunfire from sorrounding Union blockaders... it seems that after Hunley planted the charge that sunk the U.S.S. Housatonic she may have drifted away, taken by the currents, as her crew rested at their crank-handle stations.
And then, scientists theorize, the crew succumbed one by one to oxygen deprivation, dying in their seats. Scientists this week found that the eight-man crew of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine had not set the pump to remove water from the crew compartment, which might indicate it was not flooded but rather sank after the crew had perished.
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