Titanic search was cold war cover story for secret mission to find nuclear subs

[chargerman69]

Learn somthing new everyday
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1021640/Titanic-search-Cold-War-cover-story-secret-mission-nuclear-subs.html

[JB400]

They're looking for Atlantis and Poly's marbles and found this stuff instead.




Honestly though, the Navy funded the whole thing.  Ballard wanted to find Titanic while the Navy wanted to find the Thresher.  The deal was made that if Ballard found the Thresher, he could use Alvin (mini sub) to find Titanic, only deal was that he had so many days to do so.

[Mike DC]

   
I went to hear Robert Ballard talk at a public speaking appearance a few years ago.  It was very interesting. 

The Titanic stuff was the "tip of the iceberg" in every way.  He's not a Titanic nut so much as an ocean exploration nut.  He just found the Titanic in order to stir up public interest in the oceans.

[polywideblock]

have been watching his documentary's on wrecks in the black and Baltic seas ,wooden ships from a thousand years ago still preserved by the poison / airless layer

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIun8FdqCE4

[ws23rt]

This topic reminds me of a project called Azorian.  The raising of a Russian sub (K-129)

I am a fan of extreme engineering / mega projects and the like but this one has impressed me more than all others.

The mission was to raise a Russian sub from three miles down and bring it into a ship altered just for this mission.

I am sure I saw the documentary on netflix but can't find it now.

It is a testament to what can be done when smart people, lots of money,(Howard Hughes) come together with a get it done attitude.

If someone can find out where this documentary is I would like to see it again

[Fred]

They're looking for Atlantis and Poly's marbles and found this stuff instead.

   The fools.

[green69rt]

This topic reminds me of a project called Azorian.  The raising of a Russian sub (K-129)

I am a fan of extreme engineering / mega projects and the like but this one has impressed me more than all others.

The mission was to raise a Russian sub from three miles down and bring it into a ship altered just for this mission.

I am sure I saw the documentary on netflix but can't find it now.

It is a testament to what can be done when smart people, lots of money,(Howard Hughes) come together with a get it done attitude.

If someone can find out where this documentary is I would like to see it again

Yeah, I think I remember the ship was called the Glomar Explorer and was built with a big hatch in the bottom so the sub could be lifted into the ship without satellites or anyone else seeing what was going on.  Never heard if they succeeded.  I think the story was leaked to the press.

[ws23rt]

This topic reminds me of a project called Azorian.  The raising of a Russian sub (K-129)

I am a fan of extreme engineering / mega projects and the like but this one has impressed me more than all others.

The mission was to raise a Russian sub from three miles down and bring it into a ship altered just for this mission.

I am sure I saw the documentary on netflix but can't find it now.

It is a testament to what can be done when smart people, lots of money,(Howard Hughes) come together with a get it done attitude.

If someone can find out where this documentary is I would like to see it again

Yeah, I think I remember the ship was called the Glomar Explorer and was built with a big hatch in the bottom so the sub could be lifted into the ship without satellites or anyone else seeing what was going on.  Never heard if they succeeded.  I think the story was leaked to the press.

They did succeed partially. Some of the sub broke off on the way up. Had it not broken it would have been a complete success. To grab the sub from the mud three miles down is astounding.

[fy469rtse]

Glomar explorer , yes was a 2 part documentary, yes they did succeed in lifting K -129 off the sea bed, a couple off the forks failed on the lifting jig and the sub collapsed and broke in two as they were raising it,
got the most important part tail with missile tubes intact and crew remains also,
foot note at the end when the cold war was officially over they handed the remains back to the Russians, loved this show for the shear engineering scale off things and when it was done, year,