Posted on 04/02/2005 5:39:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
Thanks for the link. The Pacific field of nodules is called by a friend of mine who sails that area "The Land of Mu" ...
Nah. Here's Mu and Atlantis: Sundaland
uh huh... no where is it mentioned that Cthulu was an Octopus.
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The Howard Hughes ship was the "Glomar Explorer". I saw the ship and the barge at a pier in Long Beach back during the early 1970's. They did retrieve part of a Soviet sub, from the bottom, somewhere out past Midway Island.
1974: Operation Jennifer
A reclusive and eccentric billionaire builds a $200 million ship in a risky scheme to mine minerals from the ocean bottom. It was a great story -- too good to be true, in fact.
When Howard Hughes and Global Marine built the Glomar Explorer under the auspices of the Deep Ocean Mining Project, it seemed like another expensive whim. In fact, Hughes was providing cover for American intelligence. The real objective was not manganese nodules, but a Soviet ballistic missile submarine that sank in the Pacific in 1968.
In the summer of 1974, the Glomar Explorer found the sub. Strong cranes hauled the sub's hull into the ship's "moon well," an open vault in the middle. That the Explorer recovered at least part of the sub is well documented; what the U.S. got is still a matter of debate. By some accounts, the entire sub was recovered, scoured and returned to the ocean. According to other records, the sub broke in half and most of it was lost. The U.S. may or may not have recovered nuclear missiles, nuclear torpedoes and code books. Many of the records of the mission remain classified.
American sailors definitely found the bodies of six members of the sub's crew. In a surreal event, those Soviet sailors were buried at sea with full military honors, presided over by a U.S. Navy chaplain. That ceremony remained a secret until 1992, when then-CIA chief Robert Gates presented a videotape of the ceremony to Moscow.
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