I took a day off during the search for the Hunley and with the woman who was my wife then and a friend, we headed out across the Bay towards Fort Sumpter. Givcen that we had been looking for the Hunley, we were all acutely aware of the ships that had sialed in these waters and the battles fought here. In fact, our destination that day was Fort Sumter whose bombardment so outraged the North that they carried a special anger towards Charleston and its people. The "guilt" of Charleston was one of the reasons that Charleston was under such a heavy blockade by the Federal Navy and that in turn was why the Hunley had been brought to Charleston - to try to lift the blockade. We had already found the USS Housatonic, the steam frigate sunk by the Hunley and were doing a partial excavation of another ship, a Confederate blockade runner that as I remember was in a sandbar on Sullivan's Island near Fort Moultrie.