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by ttyprintk
459 days ago
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“it was created as a tool for civilian salvage and seabed mining” was likely a pretense for anyone developing it. Getting more imaginative, in international waters, we can talk about privateer and counter-privateer crews, maybe flying a Somali flag. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
Which was part of a plan to raise a sunken Russia nuclear submarine. I remember a short TV documentary which promoted the cover story that they were planning to mine manganese nodules. Interestingly, there are many stories of the period to the effect that there were spies in every port in the 1970s and anyone who was doing anything suspicious (like L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology) was likely to have trouble.