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I will be adding info on how the story leaked when I get round to it.
Also, what is the source for the Chikyu / Polus speculation? Google doesn't seem to know anything about it... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.112.122 ( talk • contribs) 02:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
EDIT:-- Polus changed to Polyus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.112.122 ( talk • contribs) 02:49, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
I am new. I was trying to add to the Glomar Explorer in Fiction. I wanted to add that:
The Glomar Explorer also makes an appearance in the novel Shock Wave by Clive Cussler. It was used to dangle a modified satallite dish under the surface of the ocean to deflect a massive acoustic shockwave.
I did manage to add it but it went down at the bottom after the external links section. Did I do something wrong or is that just how it works out?
Just curious. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rforee ( talk • contribs) 15:25, 31 January 2006.
I think you just clicked on the wrong [edit] by mistake, someone has already fixed this for you! Just to be clear, you have to click the [edit] link above the section you wish to edit, rather than below. Happy editing and welcome to wikipedia! -- Lox ( t, c) 20:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Yeap thats it I clicked on the wrong edit button thanks Rforee 10:28, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
In 2005 Japan has launched a 57,500 ton ship named Chikyu ("Earth" in Japanese) nominally tasked with drilling through the mantle of the Earth for quake research [2]. It is rumored that the true aim of the mission is to repeat the feat of the Glomar Explorer. The suggested actual objective would be to recover the remains of the Soviet Polyus battle space station prototype, which was launched unsuccessfully in 1987 and fell into 6000 meter deep waters in the southern Pacific Ocean. The advanced military technology and top secret cryptographic communications equipment seized from the remains would, according to the rumor, provide Japan with bargaining chips to demand the return of the Kurils from Russia.
Last I checked, this is an encyclopedia, and that section in the article sounds like conspiracy theorizing at its best. I deleted the section, since I couldn't find any references of this to a reliable, unbiased source. Would the person who added this care to comment? Alexthe5th 03:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
There should probably be something about the Glomar response in this article. -- Descendall 01:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
The following comment was added to this section by anon user 205.157.189.194:
This information should be verified and properly added to the article text, if applicable.-- Lord Kinbote 19:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I can never work out how to add an extra heading here, but it's covered by this one. Namely, the article states that in 1978 it was leased as "another cover story", yet it's also clearly stated that it's true mission was revealed in 1975 LAT article. So why would they have another cover story three years after the truth came out? Doesn't this need a verification or clarification?
VonBlade
12:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone find the ship on a google map ?
My father worked with one of the subcontractors (Honeywell Marine Systems) on the Glomar Explorer. A letter of 20 June 1974 thanking him for his contributions included a Coin commemorating the launch of the ship. He also had a "Manganese Module" presumably picked up by the ship in July 1971 from 20,000 ft deep in the Pacific. -- All elaborate cover for the real objective. 69.131.102.28 13:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)Jim
It is unclear from this article when the recovery attempt actually happened, with the section on Project Jennifer covering the whole period between 1972 and 1978. Was the attempt before or after the congressional hearings also described in this section. Was it before or after the ship was laid up in January 1977. The text is so confused it is really difficult to tell.
Also the text of the article implies that the vessel was only laid up for a very short period, from January 1977 to September 1978, when it was aquired by Ocean Minerals Company of Mountain View. And it says nothing about the life of the ship with that company until its 1997 conversion. But there is a picture of the ship laid up in 1993. How come?.
I suppose one reading is that the acquisition in 1978 was when the ship was acquired for the submarine recovery attempt, which explains why the para on the acquisition is under the Project Jennifer section and not the After Project Jennifer section. And it explains the photo; presumably the ship went back into layup after the attempt. But this contradicts the statement that the ship was specifically built for the recovery. The more I read this article, the more confused I get.
Because of these, I'm going to tag the article in need of cleanup. -- Chris j wood ( talk) 14:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
I just chatted up an ex-Bethlehem Steel guy who worked aboard the ship in the 70s at its first decommissioning at Hunter's Point following the Soviet sub salvage action. He said there was a giant metal shredder within the Glomar Explorer and that it was clear from the way the ship's crew were joking around that the majority of the recovered section of Soviet submarine was shredded into bits and dumped at sea, never to be found again. Totally unsupportable as Wiki reference material but interesting nontheless. Binksternet ( talk) 05:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
In my humble way I'd like to contribute by adding an external reference. I put the link there, but it is not integrated into the the external references section. I'm new to Wikipedia editing, and I want to get this right. PBS Scientific American has a good citation for the introduction, citing the loss of the Russian Golf class submarine. The page is called Raising Sunken Ships: The Glomar Explorer at http://www.pbs.org/saf/1305/features/ship2.htm Good link for starts no?
Charlietunafish ( talk) 02:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
The journal Science, June 1976, pp 1313-1315 contains an analysis of the ship's capabilities based on GSA and ERDA publications. The conclusions/surmises drawn there are that the situation was quite different from that presented in the news papers, and I would add the later tv show. 66.57.13.117 ( talk) 22:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)Clarke Schneider 1/20/2009
"There are claims from unofficial writers (who provide no documentation nor source data) that the material recovered by the Glomar Explorer included nuclear missiles and various codebooks. It is also suggested, again by writers with no first hand knowledge, that contrary to the official account, nearly the entire submarine was recovered and that the official CIA account amounts to disinformation to give the impression of an unsuccessful mission."
— disputed section
It's been 30 years since I read Clyde Burleson's Jennifer Project, but I seem to recall that no one prior to his investigation had written anything on the story of the Glomar Explorer. Burleson's book was well-documented with material, as I recall. So if the writer of the above statement intends to suggest that Burleson made claims which were unsupported, I'd like to know why? Furthermore, I'd like to know from what the writer of the above statement draws his own conclusions about unofficial writers (who provide no documentation nor source data) and writers with no first hand knowledge. These phrases are heavily loaded with point of view, and they provide absolutely no background to verify them. Hag2 ( talk) 22:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Who or what is/was "Hughes Glomar"? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:00, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Hughes is Howard Hughes, and GLOMAR is a shortening of GLObal MARine. VonBlade ( talk) 20:49, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
This is certainly more famous as the Glomar. However its current status as the GSF Explorer should be included in the infobox. In any event the normal naming convention on Wikipedia is to use the current name. Americasroof ( talk) 21:15, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
The book Blind Man's Bluff [1] claims several interesting points concerning the Glomar Explorer and the Golf class sub. The main one is that there was a mechanical failure of the lift due to it hitting the ocean floor during the first attempt. As a result three of the mechanical arms failed as the sub was being raised on the second try. The book also states that the sub indeed did break apart during the lift. With the part that fell back to the ocean floor went the missiles and warheads along with the code books that the CIA was most interested in.
The book also points out that raising the Golf class sub was irrelevant due to advances in Soviet sub design. Oat57 ( talk) 02:28, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
I will be adding info on how the story leaked when I get round to it.
Also, what is the source for the Chikyu / Polus speculation? Google doesn't seem to know anything about it... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.112.122 ( talk • contribs) 02:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
EDIT:-- Polus changed to Polyus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.112.122 ( talk • contribs) 02:49, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
I am new. I was trying to add to the Glomar Explorer in Fiction. I wanted to add that:
The Glomar Explorer also makes an appearance in the novel Shock Wave by Clive Cussler. It was used to dangle a modified satallite dish under the surface of the ocean to deflect a massive acoustic shockwave.
I did manage to add it but it went down at the bottom after the external links section. Did I do something wrong or is that just how it works out?
Just curious. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rforee ( talk • contribs) 15:25, 31 January 2006.
I think you just clicked on the wrong [edit] by mistake, someone has already fixed this for you! Just to be clear, you have to click the [edit] link above the section you wish to edit, rather than below. Happy editing and welcome to wikipedia! -- Lox ( t, c) 20:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Yeap thats it I clicked on the wrong edit button thanks Rforee 10:28, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
In 2005 Japan has launched a 57,500 ton ship named Chikyu ("Earth" in Japanese) nominally tasked with drilling through the mantle of the Earth for quake research [2]. It is rumored that the true aim of the mission is to repeat the feat of the Glomar Explorer. The suggested actual objective would be to recover the remains of the Soviet Polyus battle space station prototype, which was launched unsuccessfully in 1987 and fell into 6000 meter deep waters in the southern Pacific Ocean. The advanced military technology and top secret cryptographic communications equipment seized from the remains would, according to the rumor, provide Japan with bargaining chips to demand the return of the Kurils from Russia.
Last I checked, this is an encyclopedia, and that section in the article sounds like conspiracy theorizing at its best. I deleted the section, since I couldn't find any references of this to a reliable, unbiased source. Would the person who added this care to comment? Alexthe5th 03:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
There should probably be something about the Glomar response in this article. -- Descendall 01:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
The following comment was added to this section by anon user 205.157.189.194:
This information should be verified and properly added to the article text, if applicable.-- Lord Kinbote 19:57, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I can never work out how to add an extra heading here, but it's covered by this one. Namely, the article states that in 1978 it was leased as "another cover story", yet it's also clearly stated that it's true mission was revealed in 1975 LAT article. So why would they have another cover story three years after the truth came out? Doesn't this need a verification or clarification?
VonBlade
12:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone find the ship on a google map ?
My father worked with one of the subcontractors (Honeywell Marine Systems) on the Glomar Explorer. A letter of 20 June 1974 thanking him for his contributions included a Coin commemorating the launch of the ship. He also had a "Manganese Module" presumably picked up by the ship in July 1971 from 20,000 ft deep in the Pacific. -- All elaborate cover for the real objective. 69.131.102.28 13:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)Jim
It is unclear from this article when the recovery attempt actually happened, with the section on Project Jennifer covering the whole period between 1972 and 1978. Was the attempt before or after the congressional hearings also described in this section. Was it before or after the ship was laid up in January 1977. The text is so confused it is really difficult to tell.
Also the text of the article implies that the vessel was only laid up for a very short period, from January 1977 to September 1978, when it was aquired by Ocean Minerals Company of Mountain View. And it says nothing about the life of the ship with that company until its 1997 conversion. But there is a picture of the ship laid up in 1993. How come?.
I suppose one reading is that the acquisition in 1978 was when the ship was acquired for the submarine recovery attempt, which explains why the para on the acquisition is under the Project Jennifer section and not the After Project Jennifer section. And it explains the photo; presumably the ship went back into layup after the attempt. But this contradicts the statement that the ship was specifically built for the recovery. The more I read this article, the more confused I get.
Because of these, I'm going to tag the article in need of cleanup. -- Chris j wood ( talk) 14:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
I just chatted up an ex-Bethlehem Steel guy who worked aboard the ship in the 70s at its first decommissioning at Hunter's Point following the Soviet sub salvage action. He said there was a giant metal shredder within the Glomar Explorer and that it was clear from the way the ship's crew were joking around that the majority of the recovered section of Soviet submarine was shredded into bits and dumped at sea, never to be found again. Totally unsupportable as Wiki reference material but interesting nontheless. Binksternet ( talk) 05:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
In my humble way I'd like to contribute by adding an external reference. I put the link there, but it is not integrated into the the external references section. I'm new to Wikipedia editing, and I want to get this right. PBS Scientific American has a good citation for the introduction, citing the loss of the Russian Golf class submarine. The page is called Raising Sunken Ships: The Glomar Explorer at http://www.pbs.org/saf/1305/features/ship2.htm Good link for starts no?
Charlietunafish ( talk) 02:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
The journal Science, June 1976, pp 1313-1315 contains an analysis of the ship's capabilities based on GSA and ERDA publications. The conclusions/surmises drawn there are that the situation was quite different from that presented in the news papers, and I would add the later tv show. 66.57.13.117 ( talk) 22:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)Clarke Schneider 1/20/2009
"There are claims from unofficial writers (who provide no documentation nor source data) that the material recovered by the Glomar Explorer included nuclear missiles and various codebooks. It is also suggested, again by writers with no first hand knowledge, that contrary to the official account, nearly the entire submarine was recovered and that the official CIA account amounts to disinformation to give the impression of an unsuccessful mission."
— disputed section
It's been 30 years since I read Clyde Burleson's Jennifer Project, but I seem to recall that no one prior to his investigation had written anything on the story of the Glomar Explorer. Burleson's book was well-documented with material, as I recall. So if the writer of the above statement intends to suggest that Burleson made claims which were unsupported, I'd like to know why? Furthermore, I'd like to know from what the writer of the above statement draws his own conclusions about unofficial writers (who provide no documentation nor source data) and writers with no first hand knowledge. These phrases are heavily loaded with point of view, and they provide absolutely no background to verify them. Hag2 ( talk) 22:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Who or what is/was "Hughes Glomar"? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:00, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Hughes is Howard Hughes, and GLOMAR is a shortening of GLObal MARine. VonBlade ( talk) 20:49, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
This is certainly more famous as the Glomar. However its current status as the GSF Explorer should be included in the infobox. In any event the normal naming convention on Wikipedia is to use the current name. Americasroof ( talk) 21:15, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
The book Blind Man's Bluff [1] claims several interesting points concerning the Glomar Explorer and the Golf class sub. The main one is that there was a mechanical failure of the lift due to it hitting the ocean floor during the first attempt. As a result three of the mechanical arms failed as the sub was being raised on the second try. The book also states that the sub indeed did break apart during the lift. With the part that fell back to the ocean floor went the missiles and warheads along with the code books that the CIA was most interested in.
The book also points out that raising the Golf class sub was irrelevant due to advances in Soviet sub design. Oat57 ( talk) 02:28, 14 February 2008 (UTC)