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Gentlemen... we have a situation (Man the cold war was crazy...)
Zephos
Climbin in yo ski lifts, snatchin your people up.MichiganRegistered User regular
Climbin in yo ski lifts, snatchin your people up.MichiganRegistered User regular
So i was wiki article jumping today and got on a kick of reading about sea disasters... I stumbled upon this one which i'd forgotten about after seeing some history channel show on it years ago...
In march of 1968 Soviet diesel-electric submarine K-129 sank to the bottom of the pacific ocean under mysterious circumstances accident killing all 98 comrades on board. After the soviets were unable to locate the wreck we sent an american sub to check it out and we happened upon it rather quickly...
well, in 1970 we realize that there's probably a wealth of intelligence onboard so we get the OK from nixon to try and recover a nuclear submarine at over 2 miles of depth.... Project Jennifer was a go
Enter Howard hughes and the Glomar Explorer
a MASSIVE ship that opens in the bottom and a giant crane goes down to pick up the sub.
Basically its the worlds largest "crane game" only the prize in this one was hopefully a ton of russian secrets and missle tech.
so this glomar explorer is built and sent out under a cover story of doing some sort of mining and actually manages to recover part of the sub.
We claim to only have retrieved the foreward most 38 feet of the sub, which included a couple missles, some cypher machines, and 6 bodies. But who really knows....
In march of 1968 Soviet diesel-electric submarine K-129 sank to the bottom of the pacific ocean under mysterious circumstances accident killing all 98 comrades on board. After the soviets were unable to locate the wreck we sent an american sub to check it out and we happened upon it rather quickly...
well, in 1970 we realize that there's probably a wealth of intelligence onboard so we get the OK from nixon to try and recover a nuclear submarine at over 2 miles of depth.... Project Jennifer was a go
Enter Howard hughes and the Glomar Explorer
a MASSIVE ship that opens in the bottom and a giant crane goes down to pick up the sub.
Basically its the worlds largest "crane game" only the prize in this one was hopefully a ton of russian secrets and missle tech.
so this glomar explorer is built and sent out under a cover story of doing some sort of mining and actually manages to recover part of the sub.
We claim to only have retrieved the foreward most 38 feet of the sub, which included a couple missles, some cypher machines, and 6 bodies. But who really knows....
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this freighter was sinking in the great lakes, and it split in two... the crew was on the bow in a life raft waiting for the ship to go down and let them into the water when they spot another ship.... pretty quickly they realize that its the stern of their ship, still under engine power steaming around twards them and it collides with the stern part.
there wound up being 1 survivor, he survived in just boxer shorts, a pea coat and a life jacket in frigid 40 degree michigan november weather.
So how many aliens, Leviathans, space-time machines, and doomsday devices did we also pick up?
Also how many portals to Hell were opened?
I'm not trying to claim we wound up with the whole sub, the whole thing is just kind of mysterious. the location is still pretty much top top secret still too.
you're making it out to have much more intrigue than the reality
the Project Jennifer wiki article has some decent information, but I really suggest reading both Blind Man's Bluff and The Hunt for Red September if you're interested in that and other subsea/submarine cold war evolutions
i googled "crazy cold war tech" and this thread is the first fucking hit
so counterproductive
whooooooops