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The “Theft” of a Soviet Submarine. The Soviets believed that the USS Swordfish sank the K-129 when trailing too closely in a deadly cat-and-mouse game common during the Cold War. However, The US Navy claims that the attack submarine was 2000 miles away, spying on Soviet naval activity.
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The Soviets believed that the USS Swordfish sank the K-129 when trailing too closely in a deadly cat-and-mouse game common during the Cold War. However, The US Navy claims that the attack submarine was 2000 miles away, spying on Soviet naval activity.
Hughes Mining BargeHMB-1 was the "garage" for "Clementine" a giant hook that was lowered via the Hughes Glomar Explorer's pipe string. The HMB-1 has a retractable roof (which you can see in these Lockheed pictures). When it's ballast tanks were flooded, the HMB-1 submerged and was floated beneath the Explorer. The HMB-1's roof was retracted and the Explorer's giant docking legs reached in the barge and grabbed Clementine.
Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, commander of the submarine at the time of the nuclear accident
USS Halibut(a unique guided missile submarine turned special operations platform, later re-designated as an attack submarine;Halibut was also used on secret underwater espionage missions by the United States against the Soviet Union. Her most notable accomplishments include: The underwater tapping of a Soviet communication line running from the Kamchatka peninsula west to the Soviet mainland in the Sea of Okhotsk (Operation Ivy Bells) ; Photography of and assistance in the recovery of a sunken Soviet submarine K-129 in the CIA's Project Azorian)
