That man is Col. Joseph Jenkins, an arch Southern loyalist who represented Edisto Island at the 1860 Secession Convention in Columbia. Jenkins survived the war to surrender at Appomattox, and Montgomery's family still owns Brickhouse Plantation on Edisto Island. It has six legs that are 100 feet tall each. Once over the wreck site, the legs will be pushed into the ocean floor and the work platform will then be jacked up high above the waves, where it will be free of wave action. Montgomery said the actual raising of the sub is going to be a simple task once all the prep work is done.
Engineers plan to wrap the sub in a steel support truss and bring it all up at once.
The Karlissa B will spend today being loaded with the gear divers need to lift the Hunley. It is scheduled to be on site by Sunday. The target lift date is Aug. 7. The first major piece of work will be to set the huge pylons in the ocean floor that will support the sub's lift kit. The sub is about four miles off Sullivan's Island in 28 feet of water.