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Project Azorian (also called "Jennifer" by the press after its Top Secret Security Compartment) [1] was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer.
On 15 November 2017, the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan disappeared in the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina while on a training exercise.After a search lasting 15 days, the Argentine Navy downgraded the operation from a rescue mission to a search for the submarine's wreck, implying they had given up hope of finding survivors among its crew of 44. [1]
The Soviet submarine K-129 carried nuclear ballistic missiles when it was lost with all hands, but as it was a diesel-electric submarine, it is not included in the list. (K-129 was partly recovered by the U.S. Project Azorian.) The two USN submarines belonged to Submarine Force Atlantic, in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
A magnetometer gives serious evidence that the Alligator Jr., a prototype craft that led to the U.S. submarine fleet, may have been found.
The post was removed sometime on 23 June, a day after the US Coast Guard confirmed that the vessel’s chambers were found 1,600ft from the wreck of the Titanic on the ocean floor, but not without ...
UPDATED: The U.S. Coast Guard has located “likely human remains” from the Titan submersible, and will be transporting the evidence back to the United States, the Associated Press said Wednesday.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered one of the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners. [3] Some 16,000 submariners served during the war, of whom 375 officers and 3,131 enlisted men were killed, resulting in a total fatality rate of around 22%.
A massive search ramped up as authorities probed the North Atlantic for a tourist submarine that went missing over the weekend on an expedition to explore the famous Titanic shipwreck. Here's what ...