On a dark night in the waning days of the Civil War, the H. L. Hunley torpedoed the Union blockade ship USS Housatonic. The Hunley became the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in battle – a feat that wouldn’t be repeated for 50 years. But fate wasn’t kind to the historic craft. The sub and her crew disappeared that night in February 1864, and their final resting place remained a mystery for more than a century.
In 1995, the Civil War submarine was discovered by a dive team led by the famed novelist and shipwreck hunter Clive Cussler. After five years of bureaucratic in-fighting, scientific ingenuity and a race against nature, the Hunley was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean on August 8, 2000. Since then, the extensive research and restorative efforts underway have unraveled incredible secrets locked within the 19th century submarine.
Join author Brian Hicks as his Sea of Darkness recounts the most historically accurate narrative of the Hunley story ever written. Hicks has had unprecedented access to the people involved in the discovery, raising and restoration of the Hunley. With a foreword by Clive Cussler, Sea of Darkness offers new evidence on the cause of the Hunley’s sinking and gives readers a tantalizing behind-the-scenes look inside the historic submarine.