Part 5 of Geology, Politics and Philosophy: Example of the Future in Mining, Hydrothermal Ore Deposits and Soviet Submarines
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The Topic Idea
Deep sea mining has an interesting start. It started in the 1970s with the CIA hunting and trying to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine.
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A schematic of manganese nodules mining on the deep sea floor. Environmental impacts are underlined.
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A diagram of Project Azorian’s retrieval mechanism on display at the International Spy Museum (Courtesy of the International Spy Museum)
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America turned to the guys who made the U-2 and SR-71
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The recovery site of К-129 based on the intersection of three circles marking the distances to Long Beach, CA, Pearl Harbor, HI, and Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka.
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The Glomar Explorer
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