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@bneskylights1152

3 жыл бұрын

A 3 day buffer in the pipeline? Nice.

@paulanderson3772

3 жыл бұрын

Stay safe man.

@vladkabanilsky6312

3 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video about the Kolyma Highway or "The Road Of Bones?"

@kevinfavron

3 жыл бұрын

Please make smash that dislike button face mask please now shut up and take my money

@mikeyoung9810

3 жыл бұрын

It was a time my country could of shined and let the russians know where the ship was and then stayed away from it. Who knows it might of led to improved relations later on. And with world ending munitions always pointed at each other any effort towards friendly relations is a good thing. But, Nixon.

If you think a little deeper about it, it was absolutely brilliant to have Hughes be the public name associated with the Glomar Explorer. Hughes owned 100% of all of his companies so there were no stockholders that could see the books and reveal that he had no manganese mining operations. There is no way on earth a publicly traded company could have done it. Hughes could claim whatever he wanted and nobody could contradict him. Also, he was a hermit so he never faced cameras or reporters. Plus, quite simply, Hughes was a patriot. He was perfect

@mechcommander7876

10 ай бұрын

He was also nuttier than squirrel poo by that point of his life so people tended to avoid him anyway

@garycombs5721

8 ай бұрын

@@mechcommander7876one of the most under appreciated things about Hughes was hope much he accomplished inspire if his many mental illnesses. He was truly a remarkable human being.

Would love to see a video on Onkalo, the nuclear waste repository designed to last 100,000 years

@C2K777

3 жыл бұрын

OOOOOOOOO That's a new one on me but def' sounds like a contender!

@shivanshna7618

3 жыл бұрын

2020 ;)

@1TakoyakiStore

3 жыл бұрын

Wow this is the first I'm hearing of this one!

@Tricky117

3 жыл бұрын

@@1TakoyakiStore It's terrifying some of the things they have to consider... Like how do you mark the site to ward off potential 'grave robbers' on the off chance society collapses in the next 100,000 years and a new one springs up.... do you even mark it at all? Crazy, crazy stuff. I can't even decide what I want for breakfast...

@1TakoyakiStore

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tricky117 Yeah I'm sure it's pretty crazy although I've always wondered why no one wants to just set off a batch of corium in a safe location and let it melt down into Earth's mantle and just keep dropping the bad stuff down there?

that hydrophone system would be a worthy megaproject all on it's own

@ZekeGraal

3 жыл бұрын

Here we are today, full circle! It was an excellent episode!

The Glomar Explorer was anything but ordinary! A ship, with a massive hole in the bottom, with a lifting / trim and bouyancy compensation system capable of lifting a 3,000 tonne submarine and 9,000 tonnes of "drill pipe", whilst getting moved up and down by ocean swells is anything but ordinary! The lift gimballing system was a masterpiece of heavy engineering, capable of holding enoumous tensile forces, yet allowing the ship to move freely. The gimballing main bearings themselves used an clever system of 'bearing in bearing' driven by hydraulic motors to avoid any static friction (this double bearing meant the rolling elements were always rolling, even when the gimbal system was not er, gimballing, so those bearings could not become sticky or damaged due to brinelling, and the drill pipe string would not be loaded with side loads, that would easily tear it in two (it was designed to work in pure tension). The vertical compensation system was obne of the first real time gas over oil constant load hyraulic systems in the world at this scale, and could allow the ship to move tens of meters verticaly without the drill string or claw on the end moving at all. The fact it worked at all, with little testing and was built in complete secrecy is simple astonishing!

@jewishkidney

3 жыл бұрын

thanks for the insight!

@redram5150

3 жыл бұрын

I saw the gigantic gimbal bearing on a documentary. That alone was an amazing feat

@ryansutter4291

3 жыл бұрын

Well said...

@TheCimbrianBull

3 жыл бұрын

Kudos to you for sharing this knowledge with us.

@magnemoe1

3 жыл бұрын

It was the mother of modern deep sea oil drilling ships also the ships who do stuff like installing barn sized module at the ocean floor. Guess this operation would be much easier today, it would still require an special ship however.

"Andrei... you've lost another submarine?" --The Hunt for Red October

@jimd385

3 жыл бұрын

Arion Wong ........”Torpedo, dead ahead”

@Christopher-N

3 жыл бұрын

"All this way to hide a submarine in a river."

@mirandela777

3 жыл бұрын

USS Treasher say "hold my beer, moron ! " To this day, THE worst submarine disaster is a murican one.... ironically !

@Christopher-N

3 жыл бұрын

@@mirandela777: Depends on how you look at it. _Surcouf_ was worse in terms of direct loss of life, and while _USS Thresher_ is a close second in that regard, _Thresher_ went down with shipyard crew and her nuclear components which are both chemically toxic and radioactive.

@mirandela777

3 жыл бұрын

@@Christopher-N - well, my point is to answer at the idiots who used to laugh at russian hardware and over-estimate the murican one - see the dumb irony (placed on movie as propaganda line..) ""Andrei... you've lost another submarine?"; Unfortunately, the Tube is a common place for dumb peoples to make retard jokes about russian hardware. US DID HAVE their load of heavy losses on subs, on pair with the russians. And if we educate ourselves a bit, and we remember the US and URSS embraced in a high tech military competition back then, after ww2, with a HUGE handicap for the russians (low population, very diminished work force after horrendous losses in ww2, 20x bigger than ALL allies combined ! - ruined economy, destroyed industry, VS a country like USA - THE BIGGEST economy of the world, HUGE influx of workforce (huge wave of immigration ...), THE most industrialized country, and sure, oceans of money and resources, the simply fact the russians manage to directly compete with US in all fields (navy, aviation, space, etc), even humiliate US in some of them (first satellite, first man/woman in space, etc - all this is nothing shorter than a miracle !

My father was recruited to work on this project. He was a US Navy EOD frogman. EOD or Explosive Ordinance Disposal are trained to deal with all manner of explosive ordinance including nuclear. On top of that they are master divers. My dad in particular was "hard hat" certified so he was capable of diving at very deep depths. We were stationed in Hawaii at the time. As my mother recalls, she along with the other wives were debriefed by some admiral and other government officials. Even the wives had to have background checks! I didn't learn about his participation in the project until after he passed. Pretty cool. Go Navy EOD!!!

@boneyardrendezvous

3 жыл бұрын

Ordnance. Unless he disposed of explosive laws.

@vinoddwivedi854

3 жыл бұрын

USA a copy cat

@Madmeerkat55

11 ай бұрын

That's awesome, rest in peace to your dad mate

@Mr-Bogs

10 ай бұрын

@@vinoddwivedi854 That's absolutely comical

@ViolentPacifism_SlavaUkraini

10 ай бұрын

​@@boneyardrendezvousTIL! I'm something of a grammar nazi, and that sounded like BS until I googled it, and you're right. I never realized there was a spelling difference until today. Thank you!

Just to clarify K-129 was a diesel electric power ballistic missile sub. The only nuclear parts of the sub where the missiles and nuclear tipped torpedos.

@excitedbox5705

3 жыл бұрын

Those missiles are probably still down there. I am surprised no country has secretly gone down there. I would have gone for the air bubble idea. bolt/weld a bunch of air bags to the outside of the sub so you can balance the lifting force and once it is neutrally buoyant tow it under water to shallow water for retrieval.

@GeorgeSemel

3 жыл бұрын

Well, it's par for the course with him, don't take anything he says as gospel. Boris Yeltsin was invited to Langley and in the course of talks, they presented him with the video. That yeah we tried to salvage the sub but we also took care of the remains and re interned them at sea in keeping with The Naval Tradition of the Russian Navy. There is a very deep connection between the Russian Navy and the U.S. Navy.

@pavementsailor

3 жыл бұрын

The book 'Red Star Rising' investigates that possibly a rogue Soviet group attempted to get China and US into shooting war. The diesel sub was the same type that China had and the author believes the Soviets tried to launch a nuke, but failsafe protocols or the crew resisted the launch and it blew out the keel of the sub.

@taproom113

3 жыл бұрын

True, Jason. Also ... if any part of the sub was recovered, it had to be the conning tower area that contained the missiles. That was the section of the sub situated almost directly under the center of the pipe-string attached grappling mechanism, for weight and balance considerations. Telling the world that the attempt failed would lend plausible deniability to the US having Soviet State secrets. Knowing how reliable the "press-releases" of the CIA are, I personally believe the entire sub was recovered. ^v^

@chrisherzog4986

3 жыл бұрын

@@pavementsailor "Red Star Rogue" is the book you're referring - it's a very interesting take on this effort. The author posits that attempting to by-pass the fail safes (technology provided by the US and welcomed by the USSR) triggered the explosion that sunk the sub. He also talks about the location of the sub as corresponding to a potential Chinese launch position (as part of the ruse to pin this on the Chinese) since they did not have arbitrary missile trajectory calculation capabilities and needed to launch from specific pre-calculated locations (one of which corresponds to the location of K-129). It's a really interesting read. The remains of Clementine laid out in the open for decades in easy view just off the bay in Redwood City at Lockheed's Naval "Skunkworks" until the property was sold during the dot-com boom - not sure what company is there now but it was the HQ of Netpliance and Informatica for numerous years - right next to the Stanford sailing club.

Another great cold war submarine story was that of the close examination of the two lost American submarines; Thresher and Scorpion. This was lead by Dr. Robert Ballard and paid for by the United States Navy. His cover story was his search for the lost ocean liner RMS Titanic, this was to keep the Russians from finding the wrecks. After his surveys were completed, he had only 9 days to locate the Titanic, which he did on September 1st 1985.

@cambankrollmusic2673

Жыл бұрын

lol us tax payer

@Mgl1206

Жыл бұрын

@@cambankrollmusic2673 the money was already paid for Robert to find the ship wrecks. He finished early and used the remaining time and funds to find the Titanic.

@jedimasterdraco6950

Жыл бұрын

@@cambankrollmusic2673 I'd rather my tax dollars find out what sank one of our subs so it hopefully can be prevented than some of the crap it does in the various rider shit that you see today.

@flaviomonteiro1414

11 ай бұрын

​@@Cheka__ Indeed, his video is well put together and very informative.

The US Titan 1 missile complex program was just as outrageous and even more expensive. It was obsolete in less than 2 years. That would be a good topic Simon.

@Christopher-N

3 жыл бұрын

"And the makers of Titan, the novelty nuclear missile! You never know when it'll go off! Surprise your friends, amuse your enemies, start the party with a bang!" -- _Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl,_ 1982. The key word being 'novelty'.

Project Azorian is one of those cold war projects that has fascinated me for many years. I've watched every documentary I can about it. Glad it's getting love here.

Moon pools in movie examples for future reference, *The Abyss.

@blisterbeetle01

3 жыл бұрын

20,000 leages under the sea

@stueymon

3 жыл бұрын

Also, Leviathan, Underwater and the TV series Sea Quest DSV I like sea stuff...

@TheCimbrianBull

3 жыл бұрын

The sea has swallowed a lot of seamen! 😏

@kirknay

3 жыл бұрын

Game for reference: Subnautica.

@martinhogan9745

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Wavekrest from License to Kill. It might have even been based on this ship.

Better movie with a moon pool: The Abyss the forgotten James Cameron masterpiece

@mho...

3 жыл бұрын

its not forgotten atall!

@ModelDiver

3 жыл бұрын

I was screaming The Abyss at the screen while watching that bit! :)

@rgscomputers1

3 жыл бұрын

abyss my thoughts exactly

@planetdisco4821

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! Been trying to find the directors cut online. Not there! Reputed as One of the most gruelling shoots in the history of cinema…

This should be a two part series. The story about how this sub sink is a James Bond movie on its own. Also the ships bell was given back to the Russians after the fall of the Soviet Union. To note the subs bell was welded to one of the parts of the sub that supposedly sunk to the bottom upon retrieval

4:56 If this was Business Blaze I would have expected to see the Toy Story aliens say "the claaaaaw!" This story could have made a good Blaze episode.

@scottstewart5784

3 жыл бұрын

Or as they said in Get Smart - "The Craw, The Craw!"

@headsetlucky13

3 жыл бұрын

No buccaneering its state paid

It's somewhat ironic that, after freeing the dead from a metal casket at the bottom of the ocean, they then put them in new caskets and dropped them back where they'd found them. It was touching, and the right thing to do, just ironic.

@MrFlatage

3 жыл бұрын

Descecration and graverobbing is ... the right thing to do? You crazy?

@jamesbael6255

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrFlatage it was actually consecration, and grave creating...if there is such a thing at sea

@balancedactguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrFlatage They weren't there to steal jewels and valuables from the dead. They wanted information about the Sub and it's technology. This was during the Cold War ....so "Oh Well!" You think the Soviets would not have done the same to a US Sub given the chance? Besides they reburied the sailors at sea and even performed a little ceremony honoring them which they later shared with the Soviets.

@MrFlatage

3 жыл бұрын

@Mr. Morningstar Yes you are a troll that follows people around and then screams and shouts at proven facts under International Law called UNCLOS and the Geneva Convention. Nope same answer as always. No discussion from me. No point, no debate, no argument but only the proven facts by International laws and rules we can proof read.

@MrFlatage

3 жыл бұрын

@@balancedactguy Who said anything about 'jewels and valuables'? Oh ... just you. ;-) I do not think like you Russians do sorry. And I will never think for your Russia. Simple. Land of the free where we all salute the mighty red, white and blue.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I liked this video.

@ChefofWar33

2 жыл бұрын

What a Chad.

My Dad was one of the USN Divers that dove in that sub. He also tended a dive off the Halibut where we tapped into Russian phone lines. In Vietnam he was in Harbor Unit Clearance 1 and was one of the divers who tapped into the peace talks. Rip Tommy R Berry.

@dewayneblue1834

2 жыл бұрын

That sub was 4.9 km down on the Pacific Ocean seafloor, way beyond what any deep divers do.

@AndrewSmith-ub6xs

2 жыл бұрын

hes implying his dad served on the us submarine the halibut, not that he dived specifically down to that depth and saw the sub (i believe it would be impossible to dive that deep as a mere human)

3:34 under maritime law, it's finders keepers unless the owners pays for it.

@airplanenut89

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking there was something like this. I know with combat ships there is the War Grave status but I do not believe that applies here. Just the political upheaval of yeeting off with a slightly sunken Soviet submarine.

@hyliedoobius5114

3 жыл бұрын

@@airplanenut89 I think it could be argued that the investigation of an international crime like an attempted nuclear attack greatly outweighed some little nicety about not disturbing a wreck.

This is also commonly known as "Project Jennifer". And the ship did not go into drydock. It joined the "Mothball Fleet" in Benicia, Califonia. Easily visible for decades to anybody on the freeway, it was kept in operational condition, sitting by itself apart from the rest of the ships, in case it was needed again. There are many photos of it during that time.

@0311Mushroom

3 жыл бұрын

@@pasteldonut6454 I did not say it was. I only pointed out it is also known by that name. Just as Dan Cooper used that name to buy a plane ticket in 1971, but a mistake in the press led to him being remembered as "D.B. Cooper". What I said is equally valid.

@pallendo

3 жыл бұрын

I used to commute past it every day for years. It really was very subtle in it's abilities.

@kgppta69

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Allendorfer me too. I grew up in Vacaville

This brings back memories. I was the junior radio officer in the MV Bel Hudson, and transmitted a xxx call for urgent medical assistance. Our patient, Led Burke, the catering officer was transferred across to the Hughes Glomaf Explorer, for medical checks. It gave Dr. Bennett something to do for a few hours. They enjoyed several complementary cases of Teants larger from us and we enjoyed some superb steaks and American Ice cream in return. Great days.

Spent the first 15 years of my machining career at a shop the ended up with several pieces of the drill pipe from this project as well as the screw from the very top that assembled it all

The Glomar Explorer was built in the city of Chester, Pa; at the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock company. I worked on it, and the only one who didn't know it was for the CIA was the hooker working outside the gate. The deck of the ship, as it took shape was covered in grease, and small walkways were set up with handrails to get workers to the area they needed to be in. The security was insane. Normally when working on a ship, employee's requested copies of blueprints for areas they working on, to run piping, electrical, etc.. Normally when you are finished with the prints they go into a large container that is shredded in the Engineering building. When you went to get a print for anything on the Glomar Explorer, two 'security people in black suits, wearing sunglasses, verified your reason for needing the prints, before the print shop could hand them to you, plus you had to sign the prints and return them back and sign them back in. One warm day, one of the Security Suits, black sunglasses and all, when the jacket was open and I and several other Engineers saw the badge and gun. We built a lot of ships at that company, but Glomar was the only one with such heavy security. Plus we all knew the cover story of 'picking up 'Manganese Nodules off the ocean floor was crap.

Considering that the GE's moon pool wasnt nearly long enough to accommodate the entire length of a Golf sub, i would say its fairly obvious that the CIA already KNEW that the boat was in pieces and set about the task of recovering 1 PARTICULAR section of K-129. So its likely both true that they didnt recover the entire sub....AND...that they successfully recovered everything they wanted. The bit about the sub breaking up during recovery was likely meant to both conceal their original goal and to create a narrative that their endeavor wasnt 100% successful. In a chess match as big as the Cold War, it's always preferable to keep your opponent ignorant of what you are technologically capable of

Thank you for another great video. This story was so informative and I enjoyed your detail on the history of the sunken sub and the ship that was built to pull the sub up out of the water. 👍

1:30 - Chapter 1 - K 129 3:45 - Chapter 2 - The plan 6:55 - Mid roll ads 8:25 - Chapter 3 - Hugues glomar explorer 10:50 - Chapter 4 - Recovery 13:20 - Chapter 5 - Aftermath

"technically an act of piracy" Spoiler alert: Nixon wasn't really big on "legalities"

@dancook828

3 жыл бұрын

"Allegedly"

@thunderK5

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't piracy. The sub was salvage once it had hit bottom.

@alanday5255

3 жыл бұрын

Actually it went down in International waters and abandoned?

@redram5150

3 жыл бұрын

Can’t steal a vessel in the middle of the ocean found with no living people on board. I’m sure the government who claimed ownership would disagree and cry foul, but this is nothing more than a salvage operation

@redram5150

3 жыл бұрын

Max Wylde no, you don’t. That’s the entire point of salvage rights.

Moonpools are quite common on offshore construction vessels, mostly used for lowering dive bells and ROVs. The advantage is that the moonpool is usually near or in the area of the ship where motions are smallest and virtually no wave action and no wind. The moonpool is an open hole in the vessel, open to the atmosphere, not pressurized.

1) K129 was not a nuclear submarine. He had a diesel-electric powerplant 2) The salvage attempt was not an act of piracy. At most it was disturbing a grave site, and that was handled by returning any human remains to the USSR.

@BRMCX69

Жыл бұрын

sure, spent tons of money just to help the Soviet without any meaning. 😆

@patrick764

Жыл бұрын

@@BRMCX69what?

@BRMCX69

Жыл бұрын

@@patrick764 read the OP lol

I’d love to see the Pyestock engine testing facility in the UK featured. The massive buildings, special sound insulation, power required, and how it actually worked in testing the jet engines - including the RR Olympus Concorde engines ..

The Glomar Explorer mining the seafloor was part of our science book as a kid, lol.

@kentix417

3 жыл бұрын

It was all over the news at the time. It was another form of the Cold War competition - who could mine the seafloor first and who was ahead. I had no idea at the time that it was all crap.

I worked on this ship as an Electronic Technician for Global Santa Fe drilling company for 6 months in 2003. The old thrusters that were used to keep the ship on location had been no longer used as new Azimuth thrusters were installed when it was converted to a drilling ship. One of the Electrician use to go down in the thrusters and smoke weed regularly. This was much different than any other drill ship I worked on as the living quarters were on the aft end of the ship along with the vessel controls and the Bow of the ship was pretty much un used. I didn't get to spend a long time on there but it was pretty cool to get to work on a ship that had a history like this one had.

Some confusion here with the term "nuclear". The K-129 was a diesel-electric, IE conventionally powered submarine, carrying nuclear missiles. The USS Halibut on the other hand was a nuclear submarine in that it had a reactor and nuclear propulsion.

@Lawrence330

3 жыл бұрын

@KAPT Kipper The distinction is nuclear-powered vs nuclear-armed. The difference is important when describing the sub itself, without payload. Most U.S. Navy surface ships are conventionally-powered, but many of them could become nuclear-armed with a few hours' time and crane services.

@donaldasayers

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lawrence330 Thank you, that was the point I was making that went over Mr Kipper's head.

Please do a video about the Canadian Avro CF-105 intercept fighter that was literally well ahead of its era.

Everybody: "That was so bold! Undercover op right in front of everyone! They will never be able to pull something like that again!" - James Cameron: Hold my iceberg

I love it when something I suggested gets made into a video! Great work

Thanks

@mossydog34

3 жыл бұрын

Dang you're some of everywhere on KZread.

I know you have all told a story about the delta works. And that Flevoland was briefly discussed there. But I think Flevoland deserves its own episode.

Makes "The Hunt For Red October" sound like the truth!

@zapfanzapfan

3 жыл бұрын

Well, that is based on an event in the Baltic...

I remember seeing the Glomar Explorer when it was docked for years in the Port of Redwood City, CA. and reading about the various repurposing projects in Bay Area newspapers.

Really enjoy all your videos and the other channels as well.

I find it hard to believe they would not have made further attempts, cost be damned.

@blueboats7530

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't feasible because the Soviets were on to them. It would have led to armed confrontation, the Soviets half expected the K-129 sinking was done by the U.S. in the first place.

@AnchisesGamer

3 жыл бұрын

maybe they kept going and recovered the entire sub, we just know the cover story

@hyliedoobius5114

3 жыл бұрын

The alleged failure and follow-up mission was part of the CIA cover story. They even had a sense of humor about it, calling it Operation Matador, just like a matador uses his red cape to distract attention... in this case, the fact that the mission was a total success.

@ChefofWar33

2 жыл бұрын

@@blueboats7530 Hell. I wouldnt be surprised if it did sink from a US attack.

I was trying to explain Howard Hughes to the kids before we watched the video and thanks to the MCU being so popular it was easier than I expected.

There is a fantastic documentary on this, Project Azorian.

@BlackEpyon

3 жыл бұрын

I first heard of it from a Clancy novel.

Simon, LOVE these videos, brother!!!

never clicked so fast. one of my favorite cloak and dagger missions i've ever heard of

There was a book out a few years back that claimed the K129 was a rogue sub (think "Red October") that was a heartbeat away from launching a nuke on Pearl Harbor. Supposedly, there were speznaz agents on board that took over the ship and when they forced the Captain to reveal the nuke launch code, he gave them a bogus one with the knowledge that a bad code would scuttle the ship - that's why it sank. The book says that there was an ICBM in the tube, primed and ready for launch. They were going to attack only 1,500 miles out and then blame the Chinese.

@alexbigg7398

Жыл бұрын

What was the book called?

@patbak235

Жыл бұрын

How tf would anybody know that?

@holdenmcgroin8699

Жыл бұрын

The book is i think named “Red Star Rogue”

@holdenmcgroin8699

Жыл бұрын

And the reason it sank is because of the fail-safe system it had… the code was correct but this was not authorized so it triggered an explosion in the sub

One of the best stories ever to have happen.

Great coverage of an awesome story! The movie Project:Azorian is also very good (in a dry, nerdy sort of way).

This was awesome!! Please do "Operation Ivy Bells" next!!!

My grandfather worked at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco and apparently saw/worked on the Glomar Explorer at some point. Not sure if it was just stopping in before heading out to the search area and wish I could ask him. He even saw or worked on the U.S.S. Indianapolis when it was in port getting the Hiroshima bomb and talked about the container being welded on the deck of the ship. Wish he was still around to ask about this stuff.

I've heard this story quite a few times, but it's best hearing it from Simon!)

when I was a Navy Officer in Special Boat Unit XI, out of Mare Island, (CA) we used to pass the Glomar Explorer on a regular basis on the way to and from Ops in the Sacramento River Delta. It was always off limits to us.... Interesting ship

Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship.

The bell of the K129 was shown to Senate during a hearing about this project, meaning they managed to raise at least the conning tower.

@TheBaldr

3 жыл бұрын

That bell couldn't have been in the 12m of the ship brought up as reported, meaning they are still covering up some of the aspects of the salvage operation.

@milomhoek

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBaldr I love all these inconsistencies

I have been waiting on this one!

I worked for Bethlehem Steel Corp. shipbuilding facility on Long Beach harbor Terminal Is. Ca.. I worked mothballing that ship! It had a lot of sattelite navigation gear new at the time. We did the work at Long Beach navy yard. then years later took it out of mothballs and recommisioned it as an undersea mining ship! It was all super cool.

There's a really good documentary about this on Amazon. Has actual video footage and accounts from crew.

Grew out of spying but this Cold War tale warms the heart in the end.

@dukenukem8381

3 жыл бұрын

well cia wall is filled with nameless stars, pretty sure they are dead people

@J3AD

3 жыл бұрын

@Madolina Degocelli beware, i'm sure someone will protest about it, they will find the word Massacre offensive or some garbage like that.

Yes!!! My suggestion made it. Thanks Simon

This has quickly become my favorite KZread channel!!

Having the CIA owing you one would not be good. Collect immediately from the clandestine spy agency with little accountability or identification. Just a tip.

@salvadordollyparton666

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, beyond the whole denying of whatever you did to earn said favor, when you did, they might just get antsy and decide you're extremely depressed in the meantime... Suicidal even. 😬

@justinweber4977

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but then they can't use you as an asset later.

Yes I love this story. It's told so well from blind man's bluff

@bdrenfro

3 жыл бұрын

Great book

@alrun1836

3 жыл бұрын

@Madolina Degocelli what?

@alrun1836

3 жыл бұрын

@Madolina Degocelli oh ok you're talking about the money plane kzread.info/dash/bejne/q6N8qs1tqqi4qbg.html

@alrun1836

3 жыл бұрын

@Madolina Degocelli yeah because the WWE wrestler edge killed the pilot and co-pilot on the plane to steal the billions of dollars in crypto for Darius Grouch III aka the rumble.

@alrun1836

3 жыл бұрын

@Madolina Degocelli of course. How long do you think it'll take for the piranhas to eat that guy down to the bone?

I used to take the AMTRAK Capital Corridor trans from Sacramento to Emeryville/San Francisco s couple of times a month and I can remember seeing the security guards around the Glomar Explorer and switching shifts at west end of the Benicia Reserve fleet

Megaprojects idea: St. Louis arch, or the statue of liberty.

@shaggy7327

3 жыл бұрын

The Arch is fascinating, love the view from the top.

@pauld6967

3 жыл бұрын

@@shaggy7327 I have been in the Arch but it is on my 'To Do' list.

@VincentGonzalezVeg

3 жыл бұрын

In earthquake country it looks really funny

@fortyninehike

3 жыл бұрын

The museum at the bottom is cooler

@ghostofluck1811

3 жыл бұрын

@@fortyninehike yeah it is pretty sweet. Union station is cool too.

Simon: *references the moon pool in deep blue sea* The Abyss: Seriously?!

The project is referenced in the Arthur C. Clarke novel The Ghost From the Grand Banks. In the book it's called Project Jennifer and one of the main characters was a member aboard the ship.

The 17th century ship "Wasa" (sometimes spelled "Vasa") would make a good mega project. First it was built as one of the largest ships of it's time, it sunk (I think it was in 1628?), and was recovered and restored in the 20th century. Nothing like it have ever been done before and now it is really the only ship of it's time (the 30 years war) in existence. Military mega projects are fun but I think we have gotten a few too many cold war projects lately.

Thank you Simon and Olivier for sticking to the metric system in the script, it's a lot easier to follow.

Dang I was lucky enough to stay a month on the drill ship. I didn’t realize they scraped it in 2015. Transocean GSF Explorer amazing ship.

@AlecBurnett

2 жыл бұрын

Drilled a good portion of the wells offshore Angola

I love this documentary it is one of the coolest things that I think is a country we’ve done in a while

Excellent presentation

I sat through a talk with an engineer who was there and took part in the operation. During Q&A he was asked how much of the sub really came up he said something to the effect of “well what would you want the Russian govt. to believe?” and that basically the entire sub was retrieved. He also spoke of the respect given to the sailor’s bodies found onboard - it had a real impact on those involved. I recorded the talk and have it somewhere.

@FishBaitBlue

3 жыл бұрын

He also said something about an ice cream truck “accidentally” running over someone with loose lips in California.

I love this story for so many reasons. Mostly because it shows just how great an imagination can be, and how only pessimism truly limits ingenuity.

Thanks Simon, Would love to see you another story on a boat called Batavia

I watched a documentary where this was talked about. The person speaking said that they did get some paperwork, and it was helpful.

So basicly "The Abyss", but with less pressure psychosis Michael Bien and no aliens.

@anarchyantz1564

3 жыл бұрын

Well you have Kissenger who could double as the Alien.

@jamesgardner2101

3 жыл бұрын

They can neither confirm or deny the presence of aliens.

@seanbrazell6147

3 жыл бұрын

@@anarchyantz1564 That IS true.

@anarchyantz1564

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanbrazell6147 Seeing as he is still alive, still scheming (member of the Bilderberg group no less as well) one has to wonder if he isn't one of the Lizard people in disguise! lol

@banana_junior_9000

3 жыл бұрын

@@anarchyantz1564 - Nicely done.

I was on that ship in 2008 as an oilfield service tech. The crew showed me the part of the hill where the submarine was captured. Huge!

Its sister ship is now used for ocean science. There is actually a documentary out there (I was shown it by my professor who has worked on the sister ship) that has a very detailed and dramatic retelling of the events. So much for the events still being shrouded in secrets.

The Brooklyn Bridge in New York was built with a moon pool (well, actually a casson where they pumped out the water to dig down to rockbed - would be a cool mega project)

Now you have to do the Robert Ballard Titanic search cover up. Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic, said that the expedition was part of a secret US military mission to recover two sunken nuclear submarines on the bottom of the ocean.

@ryanstevenson3852

3 жыл бұрын

Not recover, just photograph and help in the forensic investigation into their sinkings

Plot twist: the Soviets didnt respond because they asked the US for help. The visits were checking on progress of the operation.

@shaneffrench

3 жыл бұрын

Duncan McGee nice idea, but I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t want their cutting edge tech going to the US

@benja_mint

3 жыл бұрын

I think if the Soviets could have, they would have blown it up rather than risk the US getting any secrets

@MidnightSt

3 жыл бұрын

it was a CIA double-cross. CIAs internal top secret plan to defuse soviet threat by making them US friends, and the story about "let's recover it for research" was just a cover story for the US president so he could be convinced do approve the operation. the two thirds of the submarine that "got lost" were actually the important ones containing some very experimental soviet technology, and were, in fact, given back to the soviets while at sea. the ships on the second "visit" by soviets contained a "twin ship" of the Gomar Explorer which took those parts in an underwater handoff and sailed them back to USSR. dammit, that would be an awesome Dan Brown or Tom Clancy novel =D

@redram5150

3 жыл бұрын

Second plot twist: they fought up the entire sub but concocted the “claw mechanism broke” story as plausible deniability because the FOIA request “Glomar response” wasn’t working. Third plot twist: At least one more was built and it was used to take missiles from the sunken K-219 at the bottom of the Atlantic during the late 1980s. No, I’m not kidding

@MidnightSt

3 жыл бұрын

@Captain MufDyven tbh i'm not too knowledgeable about authhors of these kinds of books (or even interested in the genre itself) , i only know those two names i mentioned. but i think it's a pretty cool premise.

So I'm listening to the Audio book "the taking of the k-129. As the narrator is telling the back story of one of the chief architects and navy men, he mentioned that he had "helped with the location and recovery of the USS scorpion". I said wait, WHAT!? I didn't know they raised the scorpion....so I started looking into it, guess where the scorpion was laying? Near the Azores. Being it was the first sub raised, and it's location, I'd put money on that being the deciding factor of the projects name.

great video as always

If you want "cool moon pool" where the moon pool is actually a significant part of the story, you should watch "The Abyss" but go with the director's cut, which is a significantly better movie.

@kentix417

3 жыл бұрын

Beavers invented the moon pool.

I remember the Cold War, but I really wonder if even back then the intel recovered from the submarine was really worth $4b dollars. Still makes me proud of American ingenuity and resolve to complete a near-impossible engineering feat. I like the speculation that the entire sub was recovered, but I really doubt it was.

@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013

Жыл бұрын

Of course it wasn't, but this was the DoD in Nixon's era. It would be weirder if anything they did *was* worth more than 10% of what they spent on it.

@amosbackstrom5366

10 ай бұрын

Thank God the DoD budget isn't ridiculously inflated now like it was then..🙄

@benoitguillou3146

9 ай бұрын

"American ingenuity" as this whole CIA mission can let anyone surmise , is mainly constituted of of foreign intellectual property theft .....

Huzzah! Been wanting this one for a while.

I had the opertunity to work on the HMB1 a few years back. Bay ship and Yacht still uses it as a dry dock.

Please do the CN Tower and Skydome. Alternatively Canada's Railway Palaces. Thank you!

@SRW_

3 жыл бұрын

What about niagara falls hydro electric plant?

@The_Dipster

3 жыл бұрын

@@SRW_ also a great mega project!

@Terri_MacKay

3 жыл бұрын

This Canadian says YES to all those ideas!!! 😀😀

@TimSmyth23

3 жыл бұрын

And/Or the Stuttgart Fernsehturm - the daddy of all towers built from reinforced concrete ..

America: lets spend billions of dollars raising a russian submarine from the bottom of the ocean in a top secret mission Russia: lets ask them to reset their e-mail passwords

I love the little dash of business blaze simon we get

The Moonpool was not pressurised in any way. It was simply a void on the middle of the ship, with a floor that slid open to allow the Clementine to be lowered to the seabed and pulled back into the ship and the doors closed beneath it. The area was then pumped dry and work could begin on inspecting and salvaging the DIESEL powered, nuclear armed, sub.

I can hear the wheels turning, "maybe we should do a cold war channel, with all its cloak and dagger operations etc., etc.,"....🤨🤔😎😉😆😂

Strange that the Soviet sub sank. Volkswagens were pretty reliable back then

Great video, please do a video on the V Bombers

It is my understanding that this project also developed a acoustic positioning system that the ship used to automatically maintain positioning prior to GPS. Multiple transponders would be set on the ocean floor and ping times to the devices would be used to triangulate the vessel's position within a couple of meters. The technology was then used commercially for ocean floor projects until GPS navigation. I only know this from an old documentary on Netflix.

It would be interesting to find out what happened to the recovered section.

@FleshGolem420

3 жыл бұрын

Remember that warehouse at the end of Raiders?

@AtheistOrphan

3 жыл бұрын

Doug W - Good call! I expect top men are working on it right now. (Top, men).

@415s30

3 жыл бұрын

Probably went through it with naval engineers and then dumped it somewhere deep

@fredriikforkbeard7455

3 жыл бұрын

@@415s30 affirmative. It would’ve been total insanity to take the hull, still coated with residual Plutonium on its surface, back to to the states. They pillaged all the goodies, then Deep Six’d it in the eastern Pacific during their transit home.

The book you mention is called 'Red Star Rogue' by Kenneth Sewel. He still erroneously refers to Azorian as 'Project Jennifer' but otherwise a very good read with intriguing hypothesis.

You are the history teacher I needed when I was in school.

It was so secret that everyone on this planet knew about it.