Glomar Explorer
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GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer, was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division
USNS Glomar Explorer
Glomar Explorer mothballed in Suisun Bay, California in June 1993
Project Azorian
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Project Azorian was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer. Th
Glomar Explorer
…GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division to recover the Soviet submarine K-129. The ship was built as…
The K-129 submarine
The model of the sunken and deteriorated K-129 submarine
Sherman Wetmore, lead engineer on the Glomar Explorer, looking at an oil painting of the ship raising the Soviet submarine.