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    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...
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  • was notably used to respond to requests for information about the Glomar Explorer. In national or subnational freedom of information policies, governments...
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    the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer. The 1968 sinking of K-129 occurred about 1,560 miles (2,510 km) northwest...
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    recovery plan used the special-purpose salvage vessel Glomar Explorer. In the summer of 1974, Glomar Explorer attempted to raise the Soviet vessel. However,...
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    pipes to run vertically through the structure or hull. The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a 50,500 long tons (51,300 t), 619-foot-long (189 m) ship constructed...
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    The Glomar Challenger was a deep-sea research and scientific drilling vessel designed for oceanography and marine geology studies. It was used in the Deep...
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    privacy". Anderson has been credited as breaking the story of the Glomar Explorer, a ship constructed under tight security by the CIA to recover the...
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    location nearly 40°N, and almost exactly on the 180th meridian. Hughes Glomar Explorer traveled 3,008 nautical miles from Long Beach, California, to reach...
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  • Transocean. Glomar Challenger, the drillship used for the Deep Sea Drilling Project Glomar Explorer, a large salvage vessel built by the CIA Glomar response...
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    constructed inside the barge and out of sight, and to be installed in the Glomar Explorer in secrecy. This was done by towing the HMB-1, with the capture device...
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  • Look up explore or explorer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An explorer is a person involved in exploration, an activity with some expectation of...
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    to the bottom of the Pacific, and guided by computers on board the Glomar Explorer, clamped onto the mass of twisted, rusting steel and began slowly raising...
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    Azorian, through billionaire Howard Hughes, commissioned the ship Hughes Glomar Explorer with the cover story of harvesting manganese nodules from the sea floor...
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    USCGC Storis (WMEC-38) USCGC Iris (WLB 395) Glomar Explorer – also known as USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193) – and later as GSF Explorer Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance...
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  • sank in March 1968; partially salvaged by the United States Navy by Glomar Explorer Soviet submarine K-129 (1981), a Delta III-class nuclear-powered ballistic...
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  • involved in the development and operation of the secretive salvage ship Glomar Explorer, built to follow up on the discovery of a sunken Soviet submarine,...
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    Directorate of Science and Technology built and deployed the USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), a large deep-sea salvage ship, on a secret operation. This...
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    the secret transfer of a mechanical lifting device underneath the Glomar Explorer ship, as well as the development of the Sea Shadow stealth ship. The...
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    Florida, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. On or around February 18, 1971, the Glomar Explorer, a top secret ship was designed and built for the CIA to raise a sunken...
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  • billionaire Ellis Billington, the antagonist of the book, intends to use the Glomar Explorer recovery ship to raise the Jennifer Morgue, an ancient remnant of an...
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    Azorian, through billionaire Howard Hughes, commissioned the ship Hughes Glomar Explorer with the cover story of harvesting manganese nodules from the sea floor...
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    has similarly been reduced. This location is known for hosting the Glomar Explorer after its recovery of portions of Soviet submarine K-129 during the...
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    1974 by the CIA to raise the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 using the Glomar Explorer, a ship purpose-built for the task by Howard Hughes. The operation...
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    ships which was created in the period following World War II. The USNS Glomar Explorer was anchored here after recovering parts of a sunken Soviet submarine...
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    the 1974 Project Azorian using the specialist salvage vessel Hughes Glomar Explorer to raise a Soviet submarine. After news leaked out about this boondoggle...
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  • Central Intelligence Agency plan in 1975 to utilize the recovery vessel Glomar Explorer to recover the remainder of the Soviet submarine K-129 left on the...
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  • Exploration (redirect from Explorer)
    inaccessible from the origin of the explorer. The surface of the Earth not covered by water has been relatively comprehensively explored, as access is generally relatively...
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    from the floor of the Pacific Ocean with a purpose-built vessel, the Glomar Explorer. The ship, which was falsely presented as a underwater mineral mining...
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    operations on decadal time scales. In 1978, a dredge aboard the Hughes Glomar Explorer, operated by the American mining consortium Ocean Minerals Company...
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  • Glomar Explorer ship Howard R. Hughes Sr., American businessman – Hughes Tool Company, Baker Hughes company Alexander von Humboldt, German explorer –...
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