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It would be a simple test to recreate the blast under the assumed parameters and determine exactly what would happen to those men. Civil War sailors onboard ironclads were killed by concusion from point blank shots of heavy calibur bolts without the armor being compromised. The men on the hunley hand their backs, feet and heads in contact or very near contact with the Hunley's hull; their hands were holding onto the propeller shaft. A hull that could easily transfer outside energy through their bodies. It needs to be recreated to answer the questions of damage to the Hunley and crew.

Submarine crews who experience close depth-charge explosions during pre-world war II training said...

"The bulkheads zinged to the touch like a live electical wire. Their guts shook inside their bellies. Even the skin on their faces, arms, and bodies heaved with the shaking ship....some men's mandibles rattled back and forth involuntarily, their teeth chattering in what was called the dreaded "tooth rattler"...a close depth-charging could play upon the men's imaginations about the worst things that could happen on a submarine. For some, the explosions led to a quiet, debilitating mental paralysis....{some} entered a sort of dissociative state that left him unable to get out of thier bunks."

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