Friday, November 9, 2012

Submarines, Secrets, and Spies

The Thresher and the Scorpion submarines were both lost at sea along with its crew. Confusion erupted due to insufficient information how both submarines plunged and imploded. The Thresher could not withstand the pressure of the ocean and the Scorpion was said to have been struck by its own torpedo. Another submarine belonged to the Russians and it imploded as well but America had already put microphones in the ocean floor so they knew where it was. America wanted the submarine because they believed it had nuclear missiles and codebooks that could be used against the Russians. Therefore the Glomer Explorer was built to find "sediments" and "coins" in the ocean for materialistic uses. This caused other countries to invest in more oceanography projects. During the stealthy retrieval of the submarine, the sub dropped a nuclear warhead. It did not explode but I would've definitely panicked if I were on the Glomer Explorer at the time.

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