The Hunley
Mark K. Ragan served as Hunley project historian during the recovery and excavation of this history-making Civil War submarine. He dove with the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology during the 1999 investigation of the Hunley's victim the USS Housatonic, and worked as a diver on the night shift when the submarine was being retrieved from its watery bed. He occasionally assisted the archaeologists assigned the task of excavating the interior of the little torpedo boat. He holds a degree in archeology/anthropology and has published three previous volumes on the Civil War submarines. Mark Ragan lives with his wife in Maryland, where he owns Chesapeake Submarine Service, Inc