USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193) is a large ship currently being used as a deep-sea drilling platform. The vessel was built for a secret operation, Project Azorian (erroneously called Project Jennifer by the press), by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division to recover a sunken Soviet submarine, K-129, which was lost in April 1968. The Hughes Glomar Explorer (HGE), as the ship was called at the time, was built between 1973 and 1974, by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., at a cost in excess of $350 million. She set…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193) is a large ship currently being used as a deep-sea drilling platform. The vessel was built for a secret operation, Project Azorian (erroneously called Project Jennifer by the press), by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division to recover a sunken Soviet submarine, K-129, which was lost in April 1968. The Hughes Glomar Explorer (HGE), as the ship was called at the time, was built between 1973 and 1974, by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., at a cost in excess of $350 million. She set sail on 20 June 1974. Hughes told the media that the ship's purpose was to extract manganese nodules from the ocean floor. This marine geology cover story became surprisingly influential, spurring many others to examine the idea. But in sworn testimony in United States district court proceedings and in appearances before government agencies, Global Marine executives and others associated with the Hughes Glomar Explorer project unanimously maintained that the ship could not be used in any economically viable ocean mineral operation.