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Heck, the Hunley was safer than this thing, and that's not saying much.

I think you over state the case....
I believe the Hunley killed it's own crew three times. Neither the Turtle nor any of the replicas I have heard of ever killed anyone.

The Hunley did indeed kill its crew three times, but it was a lot more sea worthy than this thing - this thing may have tried to kill it's crewmember, as they had to abandon it on its first and only run (if I remember correctly).

This reaffirms my belief that not only are the media mostly uneducated outside of learning how to speak into a camera and put on makeup, but they manage to find likeminded people.

They just had some reporter on with some guy there in NYC, and the guy was talking about how this thing could have been used to plant explosives on a ship. I'm thinking "why the hell would anybody go out and build a replica of a 230 year old wooden craft that never actually managed to do any damage to any ship, and would take weeks, if not months to build, and was not very maneuverable, when they could just spend $1000 and get a complete SCUBA outfit off of ebay and do much more damage". Hell, they could have rented a speedboat for a few hundred bucks and loaded it up and rammed it into the Queen Mary or whatever, and it would have been cheaper, easier, and more precise.

This reporter and this guy, it was the blind leading the blind (or the reporter found the only guy dumb enough to think somebody would use a replica of the Turtle in a terrorist attack and thought it would be funny to put him on the air).