Reposting from earlier (>>434636) but got buried late in bread… anything here anons??

WATCH THE WATER?

Deep Sea Mining Ops Poised to Break Ground 40 Years After Fake One

https:// www.newsmax.com/newsfront/deep-sea-mining-cia-howard-hughes-operation/2018/02/19/id/844203/

>The CIA in the 1970s used eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes as the fake frontman for a faux deep-sea mining operation that was in reality an attempt to bring up a sunken Russian submarine from the ocean depths, the BBC reports.

>Fast forward 40 years, a deep sea mining operation is poised to launch off Papa New Guinea in the hopes of mining gold and copper from vents in the ocean floor.

>But it all started as a ruse in 1974.

>The CIA spent $500 million to build a ship — the Hughes Glomar Explorer —for the sole purpose of raising a K-129 Russian submarine that was 3 miles down on the ocean floor about 1,500 miles north of Hawaii, the BBC reports.

>The ship had every tool to go deep sea mining for manganese modules, but every tool — including a capture ship and a moon pool to haul the sub in its underbelly — was built to bring up the K-129 and its nuclear codes and missiles that it carried.

>The mission failed when one of the claws raising the sub snapped, sending half of the sub — and its valuable contents — back down to whence it came.

http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining

https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer

>The cultural effect of Glomar Explorer is indicated by its reference in a number of books: The Ghost from the Grand Banks, a 1990 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke; Shock Wave by Clive Cussler; Charles Stross's novel, The Jennifer Morgue; and The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.

and The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.