 During the weekend of 4 April 1999, Gus Grissom (qv)s lost  Liberty Bell 7 capsule was located and recovered on the ocean floor  90 miles northeast of the Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. It  underwent a restoration and went on a national tour before being  placed in a permanent exhibit. The hatch, which many thought would  have proved or disproved Grissoms contention that it blew open on  its own, was recovered, intact, just as Grissom said. The craft was  pretty much intact, considering it had been in the ocean for 38  years.