[PUGACHEV]

It was even worse than you would think. This was the Hunley’s third crew, assembled following the drowning of the two previous crews. After the second crew was lost and the Hunley was recovered, I read that it took 200 pounds of soap to clean out the remains.

[treetopsandroofs]

Have been following the story for many years, since reading Dirk Pitt books in the 1990’s.

“History” hasn’t been especially kind to its original discoverer.

Would not have wanted to be one of the salvage divers.

[TXnMA]

If you think about it, you'll realize who had to go into that stinking, "peripatetic coffin" and do that work (which included having to dismember the bloated corpses to get them out through the tiny manholes)...

Considering natural proclivities and superstitions about death and the dead that were ubiquitous in the culture, one has to wonder what sort of "persuasion" it took to get that horrendous job done...

Talk about real "PTSD"!!