00:00Do you know when the first sinking of a combat ship by a submarine happened?
00:05If you said February 17, 1864, then you already know this story, so just go find something else to watch.
00:12But everybody else, stick around. This is pretty cool.
00:15So during the Civil War, the Confederacy used a submarine called the H.L. Hunley to sink a Union ship.
00:21But that submarine itself sank shortly thereafter, and nobody really knew why.
00:26The mystery got even more complicated when they finally dredged up the submarine after decades of wandering
00:33and found that the bodies of all of the soldiers aboard that sub were in the same spot they would
00:40have been when they were operating the submarine.
00:42Nobody tried to get out as it sank.
00:45Why did that happen?
00:47Well, it turns out what they used as a torpedo was just a bomb on the end of a stick.
00:54So when they blew up the Union ship, the reverberations came back through the submarine and just killed them all
01:02instantly.
01:03And that's why we don't put bombs on the end of really long sticks anymore.
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