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History. Juvenile Nonfiction. Sociology. Transportation. HTML:BONUS FEATURE: Enhanced CD featuring photos, maps, and illustrations from the book. For more than one hundred years, a submarine lay buried beneath the ocean floor near Charleston, South Carolina. This Civil War stealth weaponâ??the H. L. Hunleyâ??made history in 1864 as the first submarine ever to sink an enemy ship. But something went wrong during that daring mission. The Hunley never returned to port. Despite decades of searching, the Hunley remained unfound. In 1995 her story took a startling turn. As she had during the Civil War, the Hunley once again made newspaper headlines. How the submarine came to be on the ocean floor, how she came to leave it, and what happened next make up one of the most compelling stories in the history of archaeology and the history of the Civil Warâ??an amazing tale of bravery, mystery, bones,… (more)
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She never returned to port.
Harry Pecorelli, Wes Hall, and Ralph Wilbanks, working with Clive Cussler and the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, recovered the Hunley, which had spent 131 years under water.
But how to excavate this discovery? The Hunley was a technological achievement, but also a war grave. Careful planning for excavation and preservation process was essential.
In a giant tank, filled with chilled water, charged with a gentle electrical current, the Warren Lasch Conservation Center began to unlock the secrets of a Civil War submarine.
This book taught me a lot that I didn’t know. It was forsure KNOWLEGDEABLE!! There are a great number of activities that go a long with this book. Great for a HISTORY class. I would teach the students maps of the united states with this book. I would print off a bunch of different maps, kind of like the ones they use in the books and have my students color and label them. After teaching the book, I would give a BIG map test.
When I first started reading this book it was boring and confusing, as I kept reading I started to enjoy it. I guess I could say it’s a great book for a historic fiction book. But History is kind of boring to me, so therefore the book was. I would greatly recommend teaching this book to middle school aged children.