The wave slows as it hits the lung, Lance said, and “that energy has to transmit somewhere.” Shock waves, like sound waves, travel quickly in water and solids but not air. “The issue is when it’s passing through (the tissues) and it suddenly hits air,” she said.
But the real damage, Lance said, probably occurred when the pressure wave reached their lungs.
That wave then traveled through the cabin, hitting each of the eight crewmembers, traveling through their bodies. Who were they? Drawing a clearer picture of doomed Hunley crew The study authors say the torpedo is the key – but many have wondered how an explosion could’ve killed the entire crew without leaving a trace.įacial reconstructions of the crew of the Hunley. It sank the enemy ship with a 135-pound torpedo, which was filled with black powder and attached to a pole 16 feet from the ship’s hull. The Hunley became the first sub to sink an enemy ship in battle: the USS Housatonic.
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Maybe a bullet made through a porthole, killing the captain and leaving a beleaguered crew adrift at sea.īut in research published Wednesday in the journal Plos One, one group of scientists thinks they’ve finally cracked the case of what killed the crew so swiftly. Maybe a nearby ship collided with the sub, throwing it off balance into chaotic waters. More human remains, clues found in Civil War submarine's conservationĪ number of theories have tried to explain the mystery of the Hunley: Maybe the crew went too deep, misjudged their oxygen supply and got trapped by the current.
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