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... :-)
“I thought the story was that half the sub went back down”
I’m not sure we’ll ever know:
“It is possible that the entire submarine was recovered and the story about only the bow being recovered was futher “cover”.”
http://w3.the-kgb.com/dante/military/mission.html