This article tries to correct the damage caused by fiction writer Clive Cussler’s claims to have discovered the Civil War submarine Hunley in 1995, even though Dr. E. Lee Spence had found it in 1995 and had already published the wreck’s location in two of his non-fiction books. The Hunley was the first sub in history to sink an enemy ship and its discovery has been described as “probably the most important (underwater archaeological) find of the (20th) century.”
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I thought that Mark Regan discovered the Hunley. Mark, my Theta Chi fraternity brother Alpha Psi chapter University of Maryland, authored a beautiful history of the Hunley.
Although Mark K. Regan has written several books on the Hunley, I have absolutely no idea why anyone would think that he was the discoverer of the Hunley.