CSS Alabama Methodology Gallery

• Historical Background
• Methodology
• Findings
• Credits and Bibliography
• About

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• Introduction
• Identifying the Wreck
• Negotiations
• Objectives for Year 2000
• Methods for Year 2000
• Raising a Cannon
• Results for Year 2000
• Objectives for Year 2001
• Methods for Year 2001
• Results for Year 2001
• Ceramics
• Objectives for Year 2002
• Methods for Year 2002
• Results for Year 2002

Sixty-two artifacts were recovered during the investigation; the largest being the 32-pounder British cannon.

Results for Year 2001

The continuing problem of excavation was finally solved in 2001 by utilizing a 100-psi, 100 cfm compressor from the U.S. research vessel Enrica to remove sediment and sand at the site of excavation. However, excavation was still limited by personnel and the tides to only thirty minutes per dive. Those parameters notwithstanding, this year's fieldwork resulted in four times the object recovery than that of the previous season.