Raising the CSS Hunley

Clyde Smith, alias Dirk Pitt, Special Projects Director for NUMA, and Chairman of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, specializing in promoting Virginia underwater archeology and historic maritime preservation, will be the featured speaker at the April 19th meeting of the Mathews Maritime Foundation. Clyde Smith will tell us a bit about NUMA, The Sea Hunters, and the search for the Confederate submarine Hunley.

Clyde was introduced to Clive Cussler in 1980 during the search for the C.S.S. Hunley off Charleston, South Carolina. He joined NUMA as a trustee the following year and since that time has been fortunate enough to travel all over the world with Cussler and his band of merry men. He worked closely with the Sea Hunters television series. Sharing the job title filled by Clive Cussler’s fictional hero, Dirk Pitt, Clyde is the Special Projects Director for NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency).

The public is invited to join this presentation
April 19th, 7 PM, at the Kingston Parish Hall,
317 Main St., Mathews Court House, VA 23109.