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They did not advertise it much. I found out by complete accident during a
conversation. That might explain the lack of crowds and/or traffic. Most of
the people I talked to there also found out by accident and most of them
were tourists from New Jersey, California, Delaware, etc.. who just happened
to be in Charleston on vacation.

I'm picking up the pictures tonight and reconnecting the scanner in the
morning. If it works (there is some doubt) the scans should be up on Sunday.
If that scanner gives me problems, I'll have the film scanned on Monday at
my old office. Whenever they are in, I'll send the link to this list.

If anybody knows the technical details of the salvage process, it would be
great to get a description. I'm very curious about what the process was for
the commercial divers who were involved.

Mike McD


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael J Blitch [mailto:mblitch1@ta*.rr*.co*]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 10:32 AM
To: mikemcd@ha*.co*
Subject: Re: Hunley


On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:33:49 -0400, you wrote:

>Just got back from the spectacle. They raised it with minimum trouble, a
>strap had to be reinforced. Once up, they took some extra time to weld the
>truss to the barge / holding container for some extra support. They arrived
>in the harbor around 12:00 or so with hundreds of boats surrounding it and
>the crew all on the barge. I was on the deck of the Yorktown for it- if you
>see the NBC news, I was about 3 feet from them on the rail. Due to the
>holding container, not much of the Hunley was visible at all. If it gives
>you any idea, I won't know what I was looking at until I scan and enlarge
>the photos.
>
>On the Yorktown, they had some Civil War (sorry, War of Northern
Aggression)
>recreation people performing salutes with the three cannons and numerous
>rifles. I never want to be 10 yards from a Civil War cannon when it fires
>again. Amazingly, it was not very crowded and I made it in and out of
>Charleston with minimal traffic.
>
>If anybody is interested in seeing the photos, let me know and I'll post
>them when I have them scanned.

I was there on Monday and missed out on the spectacle. If I knew they
were bringing it up, I would have stayed for a day or so. I really
miss the ol city, If you scan the pics, please toss us the URL for the
web site.

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