Gun Turret of USS Monitor Recovered from Atlantic Ocean

[wfbberzerker]

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[Tominator]

Now that is cool! Epic tale during the War Between the States......

 

[mastertech01]

Amazing how they can recover something lost all this time in a great body of water.

 

[goob2k]

It's a shame they couldn't recover the whole thing, like they did with the CSS Hunley a year or two ago.

 

[wfbberzerker]

the amazing thing is that there was still part of a skeleton inside of the turret!

 

[Nefrodite]

i think pbs showed a nova documentary on it a week ago.

 

[ThePresence]

Cool.