The more ambitious they are, the harder they are to hide. And considering the size of this one, I really doubt there is much hidden. At least nothing that can be compared to this.
@Moto Guzzi Soviet spies or traitors You decide on that, many of these "journalists" however were also responsible for nearly making the war go hot by blatant lying. Yeah, remember the time US media nearly caused WW3...
There's still a closer one in Eureka, North Carolina that has yet to be recovered. In 1961, a B-52 bomber broke apart in the sky releasing two nuclear bombs. The parachute opened on only one bomb. It was recovered. The rest is said to be buried deep in the mud somewhere. They found out later that there was a single separated wire from a circuit board that prevented the first bomb from exploding. It was an incredibly close call.
My dad was an engineer on this project. He worked on the claw apparatus (Clemintine). I didn't realize the significance of it until years after he passed. I remember visiting him at work in Redwood City as a kid one time and seeing the barge docked there. Since he wasn't able to tell us what he was actually working on, I just thought dad worked on a barge. He traveled a lot and most of the time we didn't know where he was going. Turns out many of the trips were to southern California. He did share some stories before he passed, but I know he took secrets to his grave, as I'm sure many of those that worked on the project probably did.
Hello friends, a fellow Russian passing by. Despite that we learn quite a lot about the history of Cold War in Russian schools I actually never knew about the story of K-129. I just watched the video published by the CIA about the burial at sea ceremony the US government held for those Soviet submariners recovered during the run of Project Azurian and it made me cry. I didn't know those brave men who gave their lives for the safety of the Motherland their serviced at the time and I'm definitely not the one to judge the actions both USA and USSR took during the Cold War, it's definitely for people who know history better. But even our nations unfortunately never been friendly to each other I want to express my gratitude for all the US government did to comemorate those people, it is absolutely touching and shows that even during the neverending tension between our nations people still stay people, no matter what language do they speak and political opinions they share. In the times of world pandemia we have at the moment it brings the feeling that hopefully one day there will be no misunderstanding between us and the world will be a better place. Спасибо Вам огромное.
I grew up during the cold war and always thought it was so unnecessary. Europe was beat down from the 2 world wars and there is no way they were going to invade the Soviet Union and I don't think the Soviets wanted anything to do with invading Europe.
It was most likely called “Project Azorian” because of the USS SCORPION, a U.S. Navy submarine that was lost near the Azore Islands while monitoring Soviet activity in the same area. Both K-129 and and the USS SCORPION sank in 1968, just two months apart. The SCORPION sank in March, while the K129 sank in May.
Gerald Windham the song itself seems to give me the same tone as if I am hearing the lullaby as well. Lol maybe they had some influence from ol' Mary? 🤔😉
I worked on the Glomar Explorer when she was converted to a heavy drill ship in Mobile, AL. How something that big with such a large moon pool opening could float was fascinating.
My grandfather worked on the ship during the exercise, as part of the team that built the lifting apparatus. He couldn't talk about it much, but after the operation was over, he received a paperweight as a memento of what I used to think was a small piece of the sub, but what must actually have been one of the manganese nodules that were part of the cover story the CIA cooked up. I wish I could have gotten it when he passed. Also, turns out that the father of one of my coworkers worked on the ship in the initial phase.
John Clark, your grandfather built a heck of a machine. It’s a tradition for shipbuilders to get a “plank” of the ship as a memento. I don’t guess there’s many “plank owners” for ships destined for real life James Bond.
@@happyguy5025 They already partially fund movies and provide everything from military gear and hardware as long as the movies have a compatible message with the military's mission statement. The fifth frontier of war is the hearts and minds of the people involved in said war.
More then likely. Without evidence, we don't know why she was so close to Hawaii and why there were extra crew aboard. But I totally buy the theory that the CIA got everything they wanted and invented the story about only getting the bow of the ship.
The recovery ship was stored near my hometown for years. Stuck in the mud in Suisun Bay, and my uncle was part of a maintenance crew that service it. By the looks of it you would think it was a oil rig.
Yes I live in San Pedro and back when I was a kid I would see the Glomar Explorer docked on Terminal Island. Who would have ever guessed what it's true purpose was,I always thought it was used for oil exploration. I wish my Dad was still alive so I could tell him about this article.
Foehmr.......They Didn't Try to hide the Glomar ...You could see it from the Benicia Bridge...I used to Fish Down there and Drove my Boat around it..I sign said keep 100 yards away...Launched out of Martinez or McAvoy in Pittsburg...Or Harris Harbour...
@@slit4659 ,I used to work on tankers and we used to dock at the refinery in Martinez and I also have loaded cargo in Pittsburg when I was on a Sealift Ship.I sure miss shipping out.I used to go to the Aquarium Club,I sure miss Martinez and Benicia.
You know? BOTH ships were "parked" at Suisan bay. The Glomar Explorer and the HMB-1 (Hughes Marine Barge) that was used to transport the grappling claw vehicle aka Clementine. They needed to build the barge to covertly transport the claw since it was built on the west coast while the ship itself built on the east coast.
In 1971 I needed a security clearance from the US Army to serve in a Pershing Missile unit. Much to the surprise of my AIT officers at Fort Sill my paperwork came back weeks before anyone else. They wanted to know why and I had no idea. Years later I learned my dad, who worked for Global Marine, was on the project and the CIA had already looked into the entire family. Would have been smart if they had held my paperwork for awhile but as it was no one took note.
Just found out my uncle worked on refitting it into a real actual drill ship, he said that the metal was a pain to work with because it was thicker and stronger, took multiple days to weld. He also said that even when the government stripped all the classified stuff out, there was still one room no one was allowed in.
I know this asking you to answer like you have an answer so what are they going to do when it comes time for it to be scrapped? And why didn't the room get demoed to remove the need for it to still need not be entered?
@benjaminsorenson I worked on that ship 16 years and I was chief engineer when it went to the scrap yard in 2015. I started a few years after the conversion and heard stories about the room. It had mixed engineering documents. Some needed to stay with the ship and some got removed but it took months to sort through. Once classified info was removed the office was free to use.
I was a kid when this occurred but I remember when it hit the news. I thought it was pretty neat they could pull something like this off. It's a pity they didn't get a second chance to try for the rest of the sub...
I wonder if the criteria for which person would operate the crane, was actually who was the best crane game guy they had at... kinda like that episode of futurama where fry had to save the world because he was the best at retro 80s video games...
An amazing story that I can't believe they never made into a movie yet. The interesting and disgusting part is that three newspapers found out about it possibly compromising the U.S. advantage during the cold war, however only the L.A. Times reported it. I guess they wanted to cover WW3.
We lost the Thresher, later we lost the Scorpion and only a few months later the USSR lost K129 close to Hawaii, there was some speculation that we were sinking subs in retaliation for them sinking ours, and as with the JFK assassination we are not ever going to be told the truth.
The really interesting part about this is the recovery of the nuclear torpedos (and any missiles we weren't told about). It is possible to perform isotopic forensics in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion to determine where the plutonium was manufactured. That means we have Russian Plutonium, and could build a weapon out of it, use it somewhere, and blame the Russians.
All the Russians would have to do is show that they provided material to anyone else to provide sufficient "doubt" that they were responsible. Russia is a world leader as a supplier of nuclear reactors, building plants abroad and then providing their fuel, so it would be a very easy thing for them to deny.
Maybe they lifted the whole thing and ripped it apart inside the ship then said it broke while being lifted. It just seems like it they did all of this creative engineering then they would have lifted it at both ends at the same time.
The divers dove half way, check the other half of the sub for important loot took it all and purpoesely cracked it in half retaining the part where there are valuable items. If you declassified stories are true then the government succeds at fooling its citizens.
@@tristanhanson1733 Though the actual inspiration for the book has been an attempted defection by an officer of a soviet destroyer, though unlike the book, in reality he failed just before reaching international waters
You should make a video on William Buckley the wild white man. It's about a convict who escaped his camp in Australia and ended up living with an Aboriginal tribe for like 30 years
At least this video refers to the ship as the Explorer. Most documentaries call the ship the Glomar. In Global Marine, every vessel in the fleet had "Glomar" in the name. So Glomar Explorer was simply called the Explorer by crews and company employees.
My Grandpa was one of the captains of that ship the glomar explorer. He unfortunately passed away but he has told some crazy stories about the event. He was a C.I.A. agent for multiple years. It is very cool to see this video and know that he was part of something so big. Thank you
we don't actually know how much or what was left of the sub that they were able to get at. We do know that they had a memorial service for the USSR sailors
Stuck at the ocean floor, with no way of escape and no rescue coming in... not the most fun way to die. I hope we'll get the technology to save submarines and their crew in the future, because not many people deserve such a horrid fate...
I installed 4 precision DGPS units on the Glomar Explorer in the late 1990’s. The Russian sub recovery was well known at that time! It is a very impressive ship with a massive moon pool!
@@Fridelain Yeah. I had not kept up with it lately. It looks like it was scrapped in 2015. It was used in the Gulf of Mexico in the 1990’s and 2000’s for oil and gas exploration. It was docked in Mobil most of the time I was on it.
The claw operator retured shortly and went on to conquer the Mini Claw championships. The Carnie Consortium took out a Hit on him in 1979 after he won 379,000 dollars fron Mini Claw machines.
That was my first thought as well, but having just read the book, THFRO is about an office gone rogue who willing hands over a completely working USSR sub to the US.
My dad lived in dc for a couple years and he had a friend who he conversed with every Saturday night at this one bar. His friend told him that he worked on a mission to recover a soviet sub while in the cia, and it’s crazy to think that this story I have a personal connection to was made into a huge video like this
this was actually, in real life, a very sad experience. kinda weird now to see someone tell it in a cartoon form. The "Claw" broke in a few places, lost a lot of the salvage half way up. In part of what was did recovered, some of the remains of the young mariners were still in their bunks and everything was irradiated.
They left out a huge fact about what the sub was doing. It was a KGB, mission to to start a nuclear war against the U.S. and China. They switched the missile fuel to give the missile plume of the chemicals from a Chinese missile. U.S. satellites, detected the explosion. The KGB, took over the ship, and attempted to launch. But since they were not sailors they did not know that there were Saftey switched to prevent an unauthorized launch. So the sailors on board did not tell the KGB about it, and they gave their lives. Their target was Hawaii.
Back then, have they thought of an alternative? Maybe offer a submarine captain and his entire crew "a free trip to Disneyland" (aka an asylum) if they could shimmy up here an authentic soviet sub? That might have been cheaper. They might have gotten a whole sub too.
Whenever someone tells me that the government of the United States cannot accomplish big things, I refer them to this salvage operation. You hit all the points but anyone interested needs to see the video, "
@@pforce9 I like your enthusiasm but you don't understand about the machines that we had at the time. New machines will not do the job. Old seasoned machines were used. My father was in charge of the plant that was used to make a few components for this. I was there when some were made and I know how they were made. That plant has been gone about 40 years and the machinery was scrapped. Know how is one thing, physical capabilities is another.
Interesting vessel, CIA had it's own offices with direct shredder dump lines to the ocean. It also had an impressive high volume / high pressure hydraulic system. Another interesting thing about this vessel was that any attending surveyor had to be a US citizen.
Actually , rumor has it, the Navy got the whole boat, took it to Hawaii and dismantled it there!! The actual floor of the warehouse where the sub was taken apart was so radioactive it had to be scraped up and buried in a secure Navel waste dump, or so it is said, and this story makes the heart of this old Submarine sailor, whether true or not, happy!! And the really scary part was the K-129's mission in the first place!!
Not at all...what was reported in the newspaper was a COVER story. The real story came out in bits and pieces following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The cover story worked: it had the Soviets believing that the CIA got nothing important, when the opposite is true.
“One of the most ambitious intelligence operations in history”
Yes, among the ones we *KNOW* about
Robyn The Fan I couldn’t find any videos on it. Do you have any articles?
@@robkj7575 There are NONE Robyn! 😠👈
911 springs to mind, the terror attacks in Europe and the UK
The more ambitious they are, the harder they are to hide. And considering the size of this one, I really doubt there is much hidden. At least nothing that can be compared to this.
@Brandon S all alphabet agencies work for the same master it's all theatre
Soviet spies: we don't have that info. American journalists: let me get that for you.
Moto Guzzi Could I have specifics? Those guys weren’t around then.
In the Civil War, Union generals treated the press as spies, and would respond accordingly.
Absolute trash comment.
@@MrRyinoyea no u times infinity
@Moto Guzzi
Soviet spies or traitors
You decide on that, many of these "journalists" however were also responsible for nearly making the war go hot by blatant lying. Yeah, remember the time US media nearly caused WW3...
Iran: Write that down! Write that down!
Gim Paul r/wooosh
@Gim Paul they have like 32
definitely my teacher every last minute before the bell
Gim Paul I’m not sure, the biggest one they have is a Russian build so could be retrofitted to use them but most other subs thy have are pretty small
Buckethatboi27 this is not reddit idiot
From the thumbnail I thought that they captured a live sub
Imagine if that happened
Soviet: what was that
Other Soviet: we're caught in a tractor beam
💀
I thought that too 😂
I wish
Lol Star Wars reference
Where did the person who said something like "then the rest of the video was about a ragtag bunch of Soviets and a wookie sneaking around the sub"
Technically they didn’t steal it cause in Soviet Russia, that submarine belongs to everyone
Communism
@@waydewatanabe5023 hello comrade
Power to the People.
@@NajwaLaylah power to the people, the small few people that turn it into a dictatorship with no food for the commoner.
In Russia not the US
This wouldn't have been possible if the Russians used Dashlane.
North VPN
Honey
@@vedran2473 NordVPN not North VPN
@@sekai2982 Minecraft invisibility spell
@@sekai2982 r/woooosh
This sounds like a GTA Online heist.
isn't it the Merryweather Heist in Singleplayer?
alexander I think they are talking about doomsday Heist.
Because it is
Lol new DLC??
@@papazaur5492 I played it online I think
So there's still some nukes down there huh? Asking for a friend.
There's still a closer one in Eureka, North Carolina that has yet to be recovered. In 1961, a B-52 bomber broke apart in the sky releasing two nuclear bombs. The parachute opened on only one bomb. It was recovered. The rest is said to be buried deep in the mud somewhere. They found out later that there was a single separated wire from a circuit board that prevented the first bomb from exploding. It was an incredibly close call.
I'll just let my friend know It's easier to make a new one than it is to recover one. OK.
👀
@Nimbus Nimbus awww :(
Is your friend from Iran?
My dad was an engineer on this project. He worked on the claw apparatus (Clemintine). I didn't realize the significance of it until years after he passed. I remember visiting him at work in Redwood City as a kid one time and seeing the barge docked there. Since he wasn't able to tell us what he was actually working on, I just thought dad worked on a barge. He traveled a lot and most of the time we didn't know where he was going. Turns out many of the trips were to southern California. He did share some stories before he passed, but I know he took secrets to his grave, as I'm sure many of those that worked on the project probably did.
He had a girlfriend, those trips were not always business related.
@@ike7539 he had that dawg in him
He probably didn’t tell anyone because if he did, all the family would get in trouble if they knew that.
@@ike7539 Kick rocks, d-bag.
Kudos to your father for honoring his oaths.
Submarine: sinks
Lester: we have another hiest!
Hello friends, a fellow Russian passing by. Despite that we learn quite a lot about the history of Cold War in Russian schools I actually never knew about the story of K-129. I just watched the video published by the CIA about the burial at sea ceremony the US government held for those Soviet submariners recovered during the run of Project Azurian and it made me cry. I didn't know those brave men who gave their lives for the safety of the Motherland their serviced at the time and I'm definitely not the one to judge the actions both USA and USSR took during the Cold War, it's definitely for people who know history better. But even our nations unfortunately never been friendly to each other I want to express my gratitude for all the US government did to comemorate those people, it is absolutely touching and shows that even during the neverending tension between our nations people still stay people, no matter what language do they speak and political opinions they share. In the times of world pandemia we have at the moment it brings the feeling that hopefully one day there will be no misunderstanding between us and the world will be a better place. Спасибо Вам огромное.
Did the USSR treat US airmen from Korea and Vietnam as well? The west is best!
@@paulwebb3242 agree.
💕😎✌️💯
@@paulwebb3242 such a low-class response
I grew up during the cold war and always thought it was so unnecessary. Europe was beat down from the 2 world wars and there is no way they were going to invade the Soviet Union and I don't think the Soviets wanted anything to do with invading Europe.
In soviet rusia one for everyone, one for US
R/ihadastroke
what
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1261 could’ve said it better myself
@@Floor69 a
@@Floor69 lol
It was most likely called “Project Azorian” because of the USS SCORPION, a U.S. Navy submarine that was lost near the Azore Islands while monitoring Soviet activity in the same area. Both K-129 and and the USS SCORPION sank in 1968, just two months apart. The SCORPION sank in March, while the K129 sank in May.
Great
chances are better than good that they were sunk in a battle at sea
Submarines are SUPPOSED to sink. That is how they work.
umm noo the scorpion sunk in may and the k129 in march...
Activision: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
So that's what the submarine is
Armada is based off of this yes
"It's all bears in a Russian submarine, Russian submarine, Russian submarine" - The Blyatles
*CYKA BLYAT*
I know it's a Beatles reference but I read it in the tone of Mary had a Little Lamb
Gerald Windham the song itself seems to give me the same tone as if I am hearing the lullaby as well. Lol maybe they had some influence from ol' Mary? 🤔😉
Young_Nut Busta mind if I use your name as a reference on my next application just do they can ask, how do we contact "Mr. young nut busta"?
Underrated
Imagine just stealing an entire submarine that would be the best flex possible
I worked on the Glomar Explorer when she was converted to a heavy drill ship in Mobile, AL. How something that big with such a large moon pool opening could float was fascinating.
My grandfather worked on the ship during the exercise, as part of the team that built the lifting apparatus. He couldn't talk about it much, but after the operation was over, he received a paperweight as a memento of what I used to think was a small piece of the sub, but what must actually have been one of the manganese nodules that were part of the cover story the CIA cooked up. I wish I could have gotten it when he passed. Also, turns out that the father of one of my coworkers worked on the ship in the initial phase.
John Clark, your grandfather built a heck of a machine. It’s a tradition for shipbuilders to get a “plank” of the ship as a memento. I don’t guess there’s many “plank owners” for ships destined for real life James Bond.
@@johnclark9678 that's just Kool. Thanks for sharing mate. And onya grandad!
@@liketolooker what you said.
Fred Peace II I live in mobile al, thats awesome
Soviet submarine: sinks
Soviets: sad noises
CIA: Oh boi
So basically they had the same budget as Avengers: Endgame
Actually a lot more if you account for inflation since the 1960s
megapro125 I looked it up, it's 2.6 billion in 2020 money, so Endgame's box office could have covered it
@@HarmonySword US government need to start making films, then they can cover the cost of national healthcare.
@@happyguy5025 They already partially fund movies and provide everything from military gear and hardware as long as the movies have a compatible message with the military's mission statement. The fifth frontier of war is the hearts and minds of the people involved in said war.
Disney is controlled by the CIA. Prove me wrong.
Im Glad This Video Is Animated Cutely
So you telling me that there are free nukes waiting to be removed?
yep...
Rusty, in 3KM depth and probably under SOSUS. Have fun trying to remove it.
MrVeryfrost, it’s a joke, dude
@@ChickenLiver911 yes but actually no
**Iran* wants to know your previous location *
BRILLIANT video thanks 🙏 ❤
The USS Pueblo, the North Koreans still have it in Pyongyang. It’s a tourist museum and they view the ship as a trophy
Avery the Cuban-American I swear every history/geography affiliated video I watch has you in it! XD
@@ineptpacific5717 he might be a time-traveller. Using futuristic technology to see into the past
Lukas-Kévyn Müller hmmm. You are right!
Avery go away your everywhere🤦😂
In Chicago we have the U505 in the museum of science and industry
"We only got a portion of the sub. Trust us it was only a portion." Exactly what they would want you to think. I bet they got the whole dang thing
They probably got more than just a single submarine
Yes only a portion. How many portions are in a submarine tho?
NO,submarine cracked
More then likely. Without evidence, we don't know why she was so close to Hawaii and why there were extra crew aboard.
But I totally buy the theory that the CIA got everything they wanted and invented the story about only getting the bow of the ship.
They were telling the truth 100%. They only recovered the portion of the submarine that was below the water...
Yay, I missed these types of videos! Thanks info graphics!
The recovery ship was stored near my hometown for years.
Stuck in the mud in Suisun Bay, and my uncle was part of a maintenance crew that service it.
By the looks of it you would think it was a oil rig.
Yes I live in San Pedro and back when I was a kid I would see the Glomar Explorer docked on Terminal Island. Who would have ever guessed what it's true purpose was,I always thought it was used for oil exploration. I wish my Dad was still alive so I could tell him about this article.
Foehmr.......They Didn't Try to hide the Glomar ...You could see it from the Benicia Bridge...I used to Fish Down there and Drove my Boat around it..I sign said keep 100 yards away...Launched out of Martinez or McAvoy in Pittsburg...Or Harris Harbour...
Thompsons Corner...
@@slit4659 ,I used to work on tankers and we used to dock at the refinery in Martinez and I also have loaded cargo in Pittsburg when I was on a Sealift Ship.I sure miss shipping out.I used to go to the Aquarium Club,I sure miss Martinez and Benicia.
You know? BOTH ships were "parked" at Suisan bay. The Glomar Explorer and the HMB-1 (Hughes Marine Barge) that was used to transport the grappling claw vehicle aka Clementine. They needed to build the barge to covertly transport the claw since it was built on the west coast while the ship itself built on the east coast.
How many videos do you want to make a day?
The infographics Show: Yes!
They watched the recent TopTenz video, expect 9 more videos about submarines.
They do like 3 videos a day
It shouldn't say yes. It should say three because yes is not a number
jackaroo bigbadjack4700
R/Woooosh
In 1971 I needed a security clearance from the US Army to serve in a Pershing Missile unit. Much to the surprise of my AIT officers at Fort Sill my paperwork came back weeks before anyone else. They wanted to know why and I had no idea. Years later I learned my dad, who worked for Global Marine, was on the project and the CIA had already looked into the entire family. Would have been smart if they had held my paperwork for awhile but as it was no one took note.
Just found out my uncle worked on refitting it into a real actual drill ship, he said that the metal was a pain to work with because it was thicker and stronger, took multiple days to weld. He also said that even when the government stripped all the classified stuff out, there was still one room no one was allowed in.
I know this asking you to answer like you have an answer so what are they going to do when it comes time for it to be scrapped? And why didn't the room get demoed to remove the need for it to still need not be entered?
@benjaminsorenson I worked on that ship 16 years and I was chief engineer when it went to the scrap yard in 2015. I started a few years after the conversion and heard stories about the room. It had mixed engineering documents. Some needed to stay with the ship and some got removed but it took months to sort through. Once classified info was removed the office was free to use.
Most high strength steels are difficult to weld since they are subject to cracks. The welding process is very technical and shrouded in secrecy.
I am
I worked on her as electrician in the same Shipyard as your uncle did, I remember the welders they were welding up storm underneath that ship.
Oh yes. Howard Hughes and the Glomar Explorer. I remember that time.
You can't steal from someone who doesn't believe in personal property
USSR has state property.
Got em' 😂😂😂
@@valenrn8657 had*
You're not capitalist if your economy is based on debt
@@uncannyvalley2350 explain?
3:27 Love to see Soviet troops with American sub machine guns from the late 30s to early 40s. Thanks infographic
“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
Wow this story is like a movie but its really true!!!
Rockstar, in need of a new GTA Online heist: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!
You are remarkably close based off their newest heist
Like the cayo perico heist but a sub robbery
I was a kid when this occurred but I remember when it hit the news. I thought it was pretty neat they could pull something like this off. It's a pity they didn't get a second chance to try for the rest of the sub...
and i thought the claw machines at the arcade were hard
I wonder if the criteria for which person would operate the crane, was actually who was the best crane game guy they had at... kinda like that episode of futurama where fry had to save the world because he was the best at retro 80s video games...
BooMz N BladeZ, that is basically the entire plot to “pixels”
Funny mate
Howard Hughes involvement was logical and critical to the success of Project Azorian. Greatest intelligence coup in history. Still is.
An amazing story that I can't believe they never made into a movie yet. The interesting and disgusting part is that three newspapers found out about it possibly compromising the U.S. advantage during the cold war, however only the L.A. Times reported it. I guess they wanted to cover WW3.
While I believe in freedom of the press,when it comes to secret missions they need to not report these types of things.
We lost the Thresher, later we lost the Scorpion and only a few months later the USSR lost K129 close to Hawaii, there was some speculation that we were sinking subs in retaliation for them sinking ours, and as with the JFK assassination we are not ever going to be told the truth.
The most incredible thing about this video is the fact that at 1:29 theres an I-16 going out with Cold War era destroyers and subs.
These stories can be quite bizarre and interesting at the same time.
Truth, is stranger than fiction.
I remember reading about this in a book about submarine stories from the cold war. It was really quite interesting.
Suddenly that old scene from a bond film where a ship swallows another ship doesn't seem so far-fetched
That burial was honestly super classy.
The really interesting part about this is the recovery of the nuclear torpedos (and any missiles we weren't told about). It is possible to perform isotopic forensics in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion to determine where the plutonium was manufactured. That means we have Russian Plutonium, and could build a weapon out of it, use it somewhere, and blame the Russians.
Like the ex-Russian spy who died in the UK, after his tea was contaminated with radioactive material 10-20 years back? Wow...
All the Russians would have to do is show that they provided material to anyone else to provide sufficient "doubt" that they were responsible. Russia is a world leader as a supplier of nuclear reactors, building plants abroad and then providing their fuel, so it would be a very easy thing for them to deny.
@@BGone-mb7wz No, like they could blow up disneyland and blame russia for it.
I read an article about this operation on Safari Magazine many years ago, it was quite fascinating to learn about it.
Maybe they lifted the whole thing and ripped it apart inside the ship then said it broke while being lifted.
It just seems like it they did all of this creative engineering then they would have lifted it at both ends at the same time.
Can still have secrets within secrets.
Or at least tried grabbing it closer to the middle and not by one end😂
@@tiredleeches771 I think the conning tower would have been in the way to grab from the middle.
The divers dove half way, check the other half of the sub for important loot took it all and purpoesely cracked it in half retaining the part where there are valuable items. If you declassified stories are true then the government succeds at fooling its citizens.
Honestly this gives me more information about history than my teacher and I can keep tract and pay attention due the relaxing visual and auditory aid
Y’all seen the movie “Hunt for Red October”?
Cow Belly this looks like the inspiration for it and it’s a great book by Jack Ryan
@@tristanhanson1733 not by Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan is a character in the book. Written by Tom Clancy.
@@tristanhanson1733 Though the actual inspiration for the book has been an attempted defection by an officer of a soviet destroyer, though unlike the book, in reality he failed just before reaching international waters
No , should I watch?
Phantom is the movie based on this.
You should make a video on William Buckley the wild white man. It's about a convict who escaped his camp in Australia and ended up living with an Aboriginal tribe for like 30 years
This was like described by Tom Clancy by his novel The Hunt for Red October in the 80s
CIA=we need some important files from Russia.
Guy from CIA=Lets steal a sub lol.
Now we just hack and steal emails🤣
8:42 the Soviet sailors mooned.... 🤣
At least this video refers to the ship as the Explorer. Most documentaries call the ship the Glomar. In Global Marine, every vessel in the fleet had "Glomar" in the name. So Glomar Explorer was simply called the Explorer by crews and company employees.
My Grandpa was one of the captains of that ship the glomar explorer. He unfortunately passed away but he has told some crazy stories about the event. He was a C.I.A. agent for multiple years. It is very cool to see this video and know that he was part of something so big. Thank you
please tell us some cool stories if you can :)
You truly choose great topics. The only other time I heard of this story was about 10 years ago on NPR’s RadioLab.
we don't actually know how much or what was left of the sub that they were able to get at. We do know that they had a memorial service for the USSR sailors
Stuck at the ocean floor, with no way of escape and no rescue coming in... not the most fun way to die. I hope we'll get the technology to save submarines and their crew in the future, because not many people deserve such a horrid fate...
How do you upload that consistently?
HiddenInUrBox big team
it's a + 5 million sub channel they have a team now
Gotta love at 2:58 how our top scientist just popped a ballon with a flat piece of chalk, then ate it. Truly the peak of human intelligence.
*This video sounds like it could be a sequel to the submarine movie with Gerald Butler called Hunter Killer.*
Why in bold tho trynin that hard to be noticed lol
@@benisrood Exactly
my grandfather was on the glomar explorer, lots of cool stories. lots of cool stories that nobody else probably knows nor ever will know
I installed 4 precision DGPS units on the Glomar Explorer in the late 1990’s. The Russian sub recovery was well known at that time!
It is a very impressive ship with a massive moon pool!
@@Fridelain Yeah. I had not kept up with it lately. It looks like it was scrapped in 2015. It was used in the Gulf of Mexico in the 1990’s and 2000’s for oil and gas exploration. It was docked in Mobil most of the time I was on it.
The claw operator retured shortly and went on to conquer the Mini Claw championships. The Carnie Consortium took out a Hit on him in 1979 after he won 379,000 dollars fron Mini Claw machines.
What happened to the rest of the sub that fell back down? And where is the recovered part today?
We need to find Perseus now
Nobody:
CIA: Yoink!
I worked for Global Marine (long after this), and never knew about this.
*In Russia you don’t steal submarines, submarines steal you*
Great video marred and interrupted by 7 ads! Fortunately I managed to get around them.
My phone's at 1% right now
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Salvage is not theft. However The US did not want the Soviets to know, hence the secrecy.
4 words:
Hunt for Red October
Just one Ping.
Cvlt. One ping only ☝️
That was my first thought as well, but having just read the book, THFRO is about an office gone rogue who willing hands over a completely working USSR sub to the US.
My first thought was
This Sonar end sooo bad!
Ba da tsss.
I laughed hard at Yeltsin being so pink XD nice hint there.
This needs to be made into movie. We need another Hunt.
It has multiple books and documentaries.
@1tiercel He sort of did.
In "Raise The TITANIC", a passing reference is made to "Project Jennifer".
Just look for The Azorian Project.
Blind Man's bluff is a great documentary on this
My dad lived in dc for a couple years and he had a friend who he conversed with every Saturday night at this one bar. His friend told him that he worked on a mission to recover a soviet sub while in the cia, and it’s crazy to think that this story I have a personal connection to was made into a huge video like this
Change the word “bar” with “bath house” and this story makes so much more sense.
Quite amazing 👍
this was actually, in real life, a very sad experience. kinda weird now to see someone tell it in a cartoon form. The "Claw" broke in a few places, lost a lot of the salvage half way up. In part of what was did recovered, some of the remains of the young mariners were still in their bunks and everything was irradiated.
8:44 did you say they mooned each other? That’s hilarious
They left out a huge fact about what the sub was doing.
It was a KGB, mission to to start a nuclear war against the U.S. and China.
They switched the missile fuel to give the missile plume of the chemicals from a Chinese missile. U.S. satellites, detected the explosion.
The KGB, took over the ship, and attempted to launch. But since they were not sailors they did not know that there were Saftey switched to prevent an unauthorized launch.
So the sailors on board did not tell the KGB about it, and they gave their lives.
Their target was Hawaii.
I legitimately was looking for this comment, since they've left out on this fact !
:)
Do you know where to find this story?
Luckily Sean Connery was on that sub! And Alec Baldwin was right after all!
And i'm Batman.
It was in the book "red star rouge"
I saw this ship moored in Long Beach back in the early 70s when I was stationed at the Naval Yard there.
I really bothers me that he said “may five” instead of “may fifth”. This keeps me up at night.
Should be may the fourth 😝
Time?
@@hakuna.matata0123 si Cinco de mayo
Back then, have they thought of an alternative? Maybe offer a submarine captain and his entire crew "a free trip to Disneyland" (aka an asylum) if they could shimmy up here an authentic soviet sub? That might have been cheaper. They might have gotten a whole sub too.
Whenever someone tells me that the government of the United States cannot accomplish big things, I refer them to this salvage operation. You hit all the points but anyone interested needs to see the video, "
Yeah but they broke the sub in half so the mission was technically a failure
We don't have the machinery to do something like this anymore. It all went to scrap long ago.
@@unclemuir We still have the know how and we can build new and better machinery. "We are Americans!"
@@pforce9 I like your enthusiasm but you don't understand about the machines that we had at the time. New machines will not do the job. Old seasoned machines were used. My father was in charge of the plant that was used to make a few components for this. I was there when some were made and I know how they were made. That plant has been gone about 40 years and the machinery was scrapped. Know how is one thing, physical capabilities is another.
The Hunt For Red October
Interesting vessel, CIA had it's own offices with direct shredder dump lines to the ocean. It also had an impressive high volume / high pressure hydraulic system. Another interesting thing about this vessel was that any attending surveyor had to be a US citizen.
Howard Hughes also designed the modern hospital bed while convalescing in one he found lacking.
Heros. American heros.
Additionally, operation "music background" was considered a complete failure, which was confusing, considering the quality of the video.
Now this video is just cold
Honestly, the name "operation sand dollar" made the video for me.
Actually , rumor has it, the Navy got the whole boat, took it to Hawaii and dismantled it there!! The actual floor of the warehouse where the sub was taken apart was so radioactive it had to be scraped up and buried in a secure Navel waste dump, or so it is said, and this story makes the heart of this old Submarine sailor, whether true or not, happy!! And the really scary part was the K-129's mission in the first place!!
Thats just to make you think it wasn’t the utter failure it was.
The graphook missed.
Game Over!
25$ to try again.
This was the inspiration for the sub-swallowing supertanker in the Roger Moore Bond film, 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.
They should have had James Bond rescue it.
The best intelligence subs got was the cable tapping missions
Hughes shaking with his left hand and Fat guy shaking with his right hand.
How awkward.
The code name SHOULD be arbitery, what good whould a codename be that just encodes the mission trough an easy to solve riddle?
The guy who made they report about the CIA being up to something should be charged with treason.
Besides for, you know, the first amendment.
kindlin There are limitations to the first amendment
Free speech. What would be nice is if the reporters had just shut the heck up and showed a little support for their country.
That's one thing I hate about the freedom of the press. The press buries their nose in whatever business they can find
Not at all...what was reported in the newspaper was a COVER story. The real story came out in bits and pieces following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The cover story worked: it had the Soviets believing that the CIA got nothing important, when the opposite is true.
Hippity Hoppity, Your Submarine Is my property.