In 1970, the world s first experimental deep-sea mining operation took place 130 miles off the South Carolina coast. Scientists just went back. Their shocking photos, released on Feb. 19, come
It was the one time a year the former lieutenant governor showed off the spoils of his decades of collecting some neighbors would say hoarding pretty much anything that caught his eye.
A recent scientific study delves into the details of the secret operation in which the U.S. refloated part of a Soviet missile launcher, which was sunk at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, the CIA took on a hugely ambitious project to recover it. To keep it all a secret, the agency enlisted the help of Howard Hughes, who provided the agency cover, the guise being that the deep ocean activity was part of …