This is a documentary about the design and building of the Glomar
Explorer and finally about raising part of the Russian sub K129 from 3
mile deep water in the Pacific Ocean north west of Hawaii.

http://www.projectjennifer.at/

If you get a chance to see this, don't miss it. The engineering of the
lift system is mind blowing.
Dave

lid wrote:
This is a documentary about the design and building of the Glomar
Explorer and finally about raising part of the Russian sub K129 from 3
mile deep water in the Pacific Ocean north west of Hawaii.

http://www.projectjennifer.at/

If you get a chance to see this, don't miss it. The engineering of the
lift system is mind blowing.
Dave


Watched it last week - or tried to.

Would have been fine as a 1 hour show.

Boring as all get-out for two hours.

On 3/26/2012 5:45 AM, lid wrote:
This is a documentary about the design and building of the Glomar
Explorer and finally about raising part of the Russian sub K129 from 3
mile deep water in the Pacific Ocean north west of Hawaii.

http://www.projectjennifer.at/

If you get a chance to see this, don't miss it. The engineering of the
lift system is mind blowing.
Dave

I don't understand why they say this operation was such a mystery back
in 1968. Everyone said the cover story was just BS. It's just that the
Russians couldn't believe the US had found the sub.

Paul

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:33:26 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:

http://www.projectjennifer.at/

If you get a chance to see this, don't miss it. The engineering of the
lift system is mind blowing.
Dave

Watched it last week - or tried to.
Would have been fine as a 1 hour show.
Boring as all get-out for two hours.

Well, I didn't think so. As an exercise in raw engineering talent, I
thought it was a totally amazing tale. Sort of like going to the moon,
except doing it on a 4 year deadline.

The floating gimbal mechanism and its associated air cushioning to
stabilize the drill pipe was incredible along with all the control
systems engineering. This stuff is very difficult to
do....particularly on a scale like that.
Dave