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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | GSF Explorer |
| Owner | Global Marine Development |
| Operator | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Port of registry | Port Vila, Vanuatu |
| Builder | |
| Cost | >$350 million (1974) (>$1.68 billion in 2023 dollars.[1]) |
| Laid down | 1971 |
| Launched | 4 November 1972 |
| Completed | 1974 |
| Acquired | 2010 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped |
| Notes | [2] |
 United States | |
| Name | Hughes Glomar Explorer |
| Namesake | Howard Hughes |
| Builder | Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company |
| Launched | 4 November 1972 |
| In service | 1 July 1973 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 2015 |
| Notes | [2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Drillship |
| Displacement | 50,500 long tons (51,310 t) light |
| Length | 619 ft (189 m) |
| Beam | 116 ft (35 m) |
| Draft | 38 ft (12 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 160 |
| Notes | [2] |
GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division to recover the Soviet submarine K-129.[3][4]
- ^ Johnston, Louis; Williamson, Samuel H. (2023). "What Was the U.S. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 30 November 2023. United States Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the MeasuringWorth series.
- ^ a b c "ABS Record: GSF Explorer." Archived 19 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine American Bureau of Shipping, 2010. Retrieved: 25 December 2010.
- ^ Burleson 1997, p. 52.
- ^ "Mysteries of the Deep: Raising Sunken Ships: The Glomar Explorer." Archived 16 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine Scientific American Frontiers (PBS), p. 2. Retrieved: 25 December 2010.