Divers Uncover A Sunken Submarine That Contains A Very Controversial Message

divers uncover a sunken submarine that contains a very controversial message [Music] but before we start please make sure to subscribe to m r tv and hit the bell so you never miss any upload from us also leave a like right now in today's information age it is easy to think all the answers are at our fingertips however artifacts keep surfacing that force us to remember that history isn't as clear as we think these historical finds often make us re-evaluate our views even if we don't like what we see this is exactly what happened to a group of american researchers they were trying to discover what happened to a famous submarine but what they discovered challenged every notion they had held not only did the sub itself puzzle them but what they discovered inside was even more baffling the most famous conflict in all of american history is without a doubt the american civil war during the four years when the conflict raged between 620 000 and 750 000 people died this number is higher than the combined us military deaths in all other wars part of the reason for this high casualty count was the introduction of new more advanced military technology these included things like rapid-fire weaponry as well as iron-clad warships there was one invention however which gave the confederate troops a notable advantage when it came to naval combat this invention is none other than the submarine both sides use these revolutionary machines but for different purposes the union army mainly used the submarines to remove any underwater obstacles while the confederacy used them as fully fledged war machines this was especially true for the subs that were constructed by horus lawson hundley was a well-respected marine engineer and his first submarine that was ready for war the pioneer was built in new orleans in february 1862. hundley was forced to sink his own sub however when union forces captured the city later that year he scuttled the submarine to avoid it being seized by the enemy hundley and his team moved to alabama and started work on another sub american diver the sub was completed early in 1863 and hundley hoped to use the newly built battle ready sub to break the union naval blockade the blockade was becoming a very big problem for the confederacy the american divers sank while crossing mobile bay this failure didn't stop hundley however he went back to the drawing board and built a third sub later named the hl hundley using his own money the hl hundley could carry eight men and was powered with a hand crank it had two tanks to adjust the subs ballasts and it was also equipped with a spar torpedo this is a pole mounted explosive that had the ability to sink an enemy ship even so there were problems during the early tests of the hunley when a ship passed the hunley its wake entered the open hatches causing the death of five crewmen on the ship despite this unfortunate accident the hunley was kept in service keeping it in service would turn out to be a fatal error on october 15 1863 hundley decided to join the crew on a combat exercise tragically the submarine sank yet again this time it killed all eight crew members including the engineer himself despite the terrible track record of the hunley it was once again raised from the bottom of the water in 1864 it was manned by lieutenant george e dixon and seven crewmen and sent to the union blockade again this time the hunley defied its seemingly doomed reputation it not only stayed afloat but also managed to not only blow a hole in the husatonic but even sent it to the sea floor this achievement also marked the very first warship to be sunk by a submarine sadly the celebrations didn't last long shortly after the attack the crew on the mainland no longer received radio signals from the hunley despite hours of waiting the sub was never seen nor heard from ever again the same went for its crew no one knew where the sub had disappeared and it was considered lost to history however in 1970 rumors of its location started to circulate edward lee spence an archaeologist from the sea research society claimed to have found the hunley's final resting place you