Senior US District Judge Sol Blatt has formally dismissed the lawsuit between Lee Spence and Clive Cussler as to whom the credit for "discovering" the Confederate submarine goes to. That means that Cussler gets it. This ends one of the area's longest-running lawsuits.
A key point in the case was that the Hunley was under five feet of accumulated debris and a study by Coastal Carolina University concluded that it had been sovered since the end of the 19th century..
The Hunley was brought to the surface in 2000 and is currently undergoing restoration at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston, SC.
Let's Get On With It. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
