The HL Hunley headed back from the kill, displayed a lamp to coastal compatriots, and then disappeared. No one knows why it sunk but it did and no one could find it. In 1980, author Clive Cussler and his underwater team began their search for it. They found the vessel in 1995, about four miles off shore. In mid-summer 2000, they raised it to the surface and moved it into a conservation facility in North Charleston.
There's now a joint project by the Friends of the Hunley, the US Navy, the state of South Carolina, and a number of private investors to study and restore the craft. The bodies of the sailors were found inside at their normal positions; the bodies are being examined and they will be buried in town. There's a daily ceremony where Confederate honor guard reenactors do the "tomb of the unknown soldier" thing in the lobby. You're not allowed to take pictures of the actual sub or any of its relics because the National Geographic has exclusive photographic rights to the work. Once the ship is stabilized, they hope to have it have its own little museum, something which seems a bit extreme to me.
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