I think it was a reactor leak that sank the sub.
Seriously, are there any documentaries about the
Hunley?
I don’t recall having seen one- I’d be surprised if one didn’t exist.
I’ve seen a couple of 1-hour documentaries on TV.
There is no clear answer as to what sank the submarine. She signaled the men on shore after the attack. A fire was lit on shore to guide the men home.
Right now it sounds like they bottomed the boat, fell asleep and never woke up. The balast pumps were x-rayed and showed that the crew were not trying to pump out water.
There is a made-for-tv movie about the submarine. It was produced by the TNT network about 10 or 12 years ago. The writers had the men getting stuck on the bottom when they took on too much water.
>>>> Seriously, are there any documentaries about the
Hunley?
As far as I know, the first “documentary” about the Hunley was an episode of the CBS series “The Great Adventure”. A show that took incidents of American history and portrayed them as accurately as they could for the time.
Original Air Date:
27 September 1963 (Season 1, Episode 1)
Jackie Cooper ... Lt. Dickson
James MacArthur ... Lt. Alexander
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0592453/combined
There was a television series, back in the ‘60’s that would tell a story of American history every week. The first was about Drake (played by Cliff Robertson) and his discovery of oil in Pennsylvania.
They did an excellent episode on the Hunley, the Lieutenant ( or Captain?) being played by Jackie Cooper.