To comment or not to comment....
What the heck.
As a kid I happened to have known the Hughes person handling funding and the fellow with the engineering company that designed the gear to pick large things up. Let's call them C and B. C is dead, B is still alive and well in Belize I hear. Probably in a bar right now. He made buckets of money working on the project.
C and B were up to their eyeballs in Jennifer. Sometimes they and my folks would go out and party a bit. I was just a kid under foot. I remember them talking about the project several times after a few too many. B would go down to South America often while working on the project.
I never really understood what they were talking about until many years later. Today, if I google either mans full names and "Glomar Explorer" or any of the other key words I might think of nothing comes up.
The project was a success. They got the whole boat.
The project was a success. They got the whole boat.
Reaalllly?! I thought the story was that half the sub went back down... so you're saying that they recovered it (the part that went back down). And since the reports say that they canceled going back to finish up the work, what other work was there to do, if they got the whole boat. I'm just wondering... :-)