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Azorian The Raising of the K129
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 |
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Azorian The Raising of the K129
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 |
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Azorian The Raising of the K129
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 |
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