NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) - The H.L. Hunley was raised 25 years ago with large crowds looking on around the Charleston Harbor. It captured the Lowcountry and the nation's attention as it had previously thought to been lost at sea for 136 years.

Those at the Friends of the Hunley remember the feeling of anticipation the day the Hunley was recovered from the ocean.

"The amount of people and activity involved was really impressive," Michael Scafuri, senior archeologist at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, said.

"How many people came out. We were on the press boat in the middle of the ocean and there were people in kayaks, there were people in jet skis. There were so many boats, this became a side story and that was completely unexpected," Kellen Butler, executive director of the Fr

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