The $3,300,000,000 CIA Salvage of AZORIAN!

[@792slayer]

It's hilarious to me that America built a giant claw game and stole a submarine.

[@waterlinestories]

🤣

[@SerenDipInT]

👽 The Claaaaaaaww

[@792slayer]

@@SerenDipInT oooooooooh!

[@checkdown3774]

We have fun over here.

[@felipesuperti8299]

Tax money claw game.

[@mestep511]

I immediately hit pause after lead in, loaded up on snacks,pillows and flipped out the recliner for the finest in Friday entertainment. Not disappointed! Excellent story again.

[@SpearFisher85]

Duuuuude!! I paused too! I love this story and any retelling!😂

[@b0rd3n]

just a quickie hey? I have the same fridays

[@waterlinestories]

🤣 thanks. Have a good weekend

[@nadiamarieusa]

lol that's how i feel too haha I wait eagerly for the next video, get my snacks, coffee and tune in ! Woohoo This is the only channel im subscribed too that i actually watched all the videos too and can't wait for the next !

[@zaprowsdower3911]

It's just a 25-minute video. I like the videos too, but you did all that's for a 25-minute story. It's kind of weird.

[@Kroggnagch]

I love this channel. I dont love the tragedies, per se, nor the sadness the families have to endure after losing loved ones so suddenly, but the events are told so thoroughly and comprehensively, the graphics and pics used as references are so easy to understand, it's just, well, perfect. I love this channel, man. Plain as that.

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks, I really appreciate that 😀

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

While they were building the Explorer, the Sunday paper ran an eight-page color pullout section explaining the whole operation, from the formation of manganese nodules to the huge vacuum cleaner that would suck them off the bottom. Sounded like a good idea to me.

[@OvayBrandao]

This is the type of channel that deserves millions of views and subs. Not all the nonsense circus clown stuff

[@waterlinestories]

😀👍🏻 thanks

[@micturatedupon]

Well in the case of this video, they got half of a sub 🙃

[@HM2SGT]

*_When Howard Hughes helped Heist a Soviet sub..._* *_...part of one at least!_*

[@waterlinestories]

🫣🤣

[@richardpatton2502]

This is proper James Bond stuff All the best to everyone

[@waterlinestories]

😎

[@ALPINA527]

James bond is a fake story about a British government spy and murderer This is the American CIA Not the same.

[@mhoppy6639]

I’m glad that you covered how the operation dealt with the submariners who died at the scene. Thank you and the rest of it was fantastic as well.

[@sparky4878]

As soon as saw the title I thought Project Azorian on here? It’s a Christmas miracle.

[@HardLineElektron]

Haha, almost like my first thought!

[@waterlinestories]

🤣🎅🎉

[@Bryan-cs9to]

Always a great day when Waterline Stories drops a new video!

[@waterlinestories]

🤣👍🏻

[@stevecesar2122]

The absolute best channel on you tube thankyou very much Happy New Year.

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻🎅🎅🎅🎉🥃🥳

[@gordybishop2375]

This needs to be a movie

[@deadflowers7029]

It is, "Project Azorian"

[@gordybishop2375]

@ that looks more like a documentary then a movie per say.

[@methamphetamememcmeth3422]

​@@gordybishop2375 no it doesn't

[@gordybishop2375]

@@methamphetamememcmeth3422 have link to movie?

[@82726jsjsufhejsjshshdjso]

The book project azurian is really good I recommend it

[@methamphetamememcmeth3422]

It's snowing in Kashmir. I'm gonna get cozy, load up the fire pot, get some tea and watch this.

[@Flying_Fetus]

Thats funny, I too store all of my top secret junk in a compartment named "Jennifer" 😮

[@waterlinestories]

🤣

[@thomaskositzki9424]

Does Jennifer divorce you if she reads this comment? 😂

[@getofoo]

Caught a fresh upload and im stoked. Thanks for the content!

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻😀

[@Decayrate-of-Ravn-Rike]

This was a funny episode. when CIA deems projects as "failed" it usually ends up with dead assets or insane assets. don your new shoes - tie loose ends and walk off with success hence: The wreck probably is not anywhere near that area now.

[@waterlinestories]

Yep I’m sure there’s more to it than the official story

[@thomaskositzki9424]

@@waterlinestories Same. It was commented in several sources about "Project Azorian" that the story of the broken-off section might be a double cover-up.

[@stacye8408]

(over your right shoulder, above the lamp) After a year with this channel why do I still try to wipe that #$@& wire clip off my screen every week 😂😂

[@waterlinestories]

🤣

[@rickbase833]

It's entirely possible the information that the claw broke and the loss of most of the sub is untrue. Why would the United States admit to that since the dang mission was super secret.....to this day.

[@waterlinestories]

So true

[@stevencoardvenice]

​@@waterlinestories Absolutely. The idea that the cia would tell us the truth about this mission is ridiculous

[@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205]

Wow, what a fantastic story to tell. Thanks, Paul & Happy New Year 🍾🎉

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks Beverly. Jerky new year to you too

[@andrewpinner3181]

Thanks great video ! The operation was like something out of James Bond !

[@karenshepherd2557]

Raised in Southern Ontario, on the shore of Lake Huron. I find your videos educating and entertaining while remaining sensitive and respectful to tragedy/loss. Thank you!

[@HardLineElektron]

Great! THIS is my Christmas present 😊 Thank you WS ❤

[@waterlinestories]

🎅🎉☃️

[@anja2716]

Never a dull episode on Waterlines channel.

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks 👍🏻 hope all is well with you. Happy holidays.

[@anja2716]

@waterlinestories and to you and yours. 🎄

[@glennac]

The book “Blind Man’s Bluff” (Sontag) covers this in detail as well.

[@Tekisasubakani]

Yeah, it's a great read about Cold War USN submarine espionage and some crazy close calls.

[@Cryptic141]

Interesting we getting into military vessels now, keep it up!

[@Samsonfs]

"where did my nuclear armed missiles go" me with my suspiciously nuclear missile shaped belly:

[@TheUndiesrules]

Incredible, I wonder if the Soviets really knew what was going on. Great video, happy new year.

[@stevencoardvenice]

They didn't know.

[@hbh3144]

I think they smelled a rat but had no clue what kind of rat it is. Would be fun if they actually hooked on manganese mining too and the second visit was more of an industrial espionage. They measured the damn ship😀

[@neonsamurai1348]

It is a bit odd to me that you would choose a Typhoon (the biggest submarine ever made) to represent a Golf-II (which has 7% of the displacement of a Typhoon), as it is such a distinctive design.

[@DopeKenFresh]

I agree, very inaccurate

[@mike_tango]

Esecially because in the early parts of the video it shows a Los Angeles class @07:44

[@irgski]

The Glomar Explorer was anchored in Suisun Bay below the 580 Martinez-Benicia bridge for many years before refitted for deep sea mining operations before being scrapped. It was a “sight to see” for anyone who knows the history of the ship.

[@Feline_Frenzy53]

It must have been totally nerve wracking with those Soviet ships so close.

[@MrKelaher]

As a kid I read an illustrated book on "The World of Tomorrow" - it explicitly shows this manganese mining boondoggle "mission" !

[@audiophil4946]

I was familiar with this story, but you filled in several details of the Russian surveillance and of the technical issues with the "claw" that I was not aware of. Nice work, liking your channel a lot!

[@JohnnyTronny19841]

Nice! In the early 2000s I was in a band that played "punk surf sci-fi spy rock" lol called The Unidentified and one of our songs was about this incident (song was called The Glomar Express for some reason)

[@keananpaul8494]

this one took a long time, but it finally came!

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻😀

[@chrism9493]

Nice alliteration

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻

[@Stichting_NoFa-p]

Fascinating video, never heard of this case. Very clearly presented.

[@82726jsjsufhejsjshshdjso]

My absolute favourite CIA shenanigan. Just the scale of it, AND Howard Hughes? Come on! 😂

[@jeremywentworth1833]

As usual a really interesting informative video many thanks have a happy new year.

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks. Happy new year to you too. 👍🏻

[@charleswright2727]

There was a companion program to the Glomar Explorer. It has never been disclosed. It is possible that this activity recovered what was lost in the claw lift.

[@mike_tango]

There is a lot of obfuscation including the theory that the "loss" is entirely fabricated

[@R.Sole88109]

Happy New Year mate.🍻 Hopefully more success for the channel in '25 than '24.🤞🏻

[@waterlinestories]

😀 thanks 🍻

[@82726jsjsufhejsjshshdjso]

You missed an excellent detail man!!! This affair is the origin of the ‘glomar response’ - “we can neither confirm nor deny XYZ”, given by the CIA to the La times when they came asking questions

[@kouusa]

Had a huge nostalgia flashback upon hearing the Spruce Goose. Thanks, Yogi. lol And glad to know they did hold service for the men they recovered.

[@MelodyNelson1087]

This episode would make a great movie!! Nail biting!!😀

[@762Super]

Awesome episode! One of your best😊

[@waterlinestories]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@guitarguy420]

This story seriously needs to be made into a movie.

[@mamarine81]

“Yoink” - The CIA

[@1Cichfishy]

Enjoyed telling this story years ago to my crew when we were working next to her after being refitted for actual drilling off the Gulf Coast.

[@jimhallinsn1023]

Boy this brings back memories, I was the junior R/O On the Bel Hudson, GYVC, Captain Gerry Kading, The. Casualty was our catering officer, Led Burke. We thought he was having a heart attack..First ship, great days.

[@giggiddy]

I really enjoy your videos. I hope you get paid per views because I listen to them all night and thats 8 hours of view time every day. Cheers!

[@waterlinestories]

🤣 thanks 🍻

[@nadiamarieusa]

I love your videos !

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks, I really appreciate that 👍🏻🤣

[@chackbro1]

This is like Oceans 11 but in the actual ocean

[@NovaTheKelpie]

This is an incredible story.

[@rainerpitsch6347]

Great Video👍👍 Ich wünsche Dir einen guten Rutsch und ein frohes Neues Jahr👍 🎊

[@Lee-mx5li]

Phenomenal job on analysis

[@aske1602]

Bravo, great video.

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻

[@HarryLime-ge6dc]

The majority of the Golf sub broke off and sunk. Yet, if you survey that part of the northern Pacific, you wont find any remaining sections of that Soviet ballistic missile submarine.... And neither the Soviets, nor anyone else, save the US, had the technology to retrieve it. The CIA has a history of portraying themselves as unlucky and perhaps even bumbling incthese endeavors. Yet, they won the Cold War. And noone , outside of the agency, and certain contractors, knows whether that Soviet missile sub really broke or not. If it didn't, yet the Soviets, as well as the press, and American society thinks it did, that would almost be as good as noone knowing we were even there....

[@hullinstruments]

Good point

[@titanscerw]

This

[@robertmatch6550]

Unfortunately the Soviets penetrated American CIA and would know if this is true.

[@stefanschneider3681]

Still one of the most fascinating stories I ever heard. And one I couldn’t believe when I first read about it! And I had no idea the Soviets were that close and still decided not to intervene 😳! Thx

[@TrevorJohnson-hp1ph]

Thank you 🎉

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻

[@thomaskositzki9424]

THE wildest story of the Cold War by a long shot... and there are dozens of unbelievable stories! When I heard this story for the first time, I double checked for quite a while before accepting it as truth. Just bonkers!

[@AdamAli-dr2do]

Love your videos. Can you do one on the SS Pendleton?

[@waterlinestories]

Thanks, I’ll check it out

[@SpearFisher85]

Thanks for telling this incredible story! How'd u keep it under 30 mins?

[@cruisinguy6024]

By leaving out tons of good information

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻

[@SpearFisher85]

@@cruisinguy6024 no kidding. I wouldn't say no to a part 2.

[@Skaitania]

"We tried to steal your secrets...but we failed." **cough** "Yes...hm...definitely failed. Your secrets are absolutely still secret. No need to change anything." **cough cough**

[@mileshigh1321]

Looked up her history. Shows she made it until 2015, when she was scrapped. Although she had been heavily modified before that.

[@winstagram1785]

Wake up, babe. New Waterline just dropped and it includes a submarine!

[@waterlinestories]

🤣 Hope you enjoyed

[@Vincent_Sullivan]

Regarding triangulation: Your explanation and diagrams (Eg: 3:10) is not how triangulation works. The reception stations do not take bearings on each other and draw lines between the reception stations. Two or more reception stations take bearings on the source of a signal (acoustic, radio frequency, light, whatever...) and draw a line from themselves on that bearing. Where the bearing lines from the reception stations meet is the location of the signal source. Depending on the geometry of the situation three or more reception stations may be required.

[@6yjjk]

This assumes that bearing information is available; you might be drawing arcs because all you have is distance, no?

[@markrix]

6:00 to 7:00 and then Congress people invested in ship builder stocks

[@bighulkingwar_machine1123]

Great video I had to click on it I just recently read the book" all hands down" It's a great 10-hour read on k-129

[@DoomsJ]

Its a Gru move

[@davemanning6424]

Thought it was project JENNIFER. !!!

[@FatemaGhaffar]

86..70...72..3...Howard ewss...LAMAASSOFF😂

[@codiede6690]

4:30 Handcuff briefcase?

[@davidholder3207]

The transcript states that in July/Aug 1974 British merchant ship "Bell Hudson" arrives on the scene. That seems very suspicious as the Soviets arrive not long after. I've searched the internet but can find no reference to a vessel names Bell Hudson? Is that the correct name?

[@mattakins3557]

Looks expensive...

[@yewtoob2007]

that's a Virginia class: an American sub

[@ChrisFoster-u9g]

See Red Star Rogue by Richmond and Sewell.

[@stevencoardvenice]

Abyss is a fantastic movie. U should do a video About it

[@johnwallace7002]

Why after secret was blown Didn't they go to the Atlantic and lift and recover the Scorpion then we would have a better idea what sunk it.

[@roryoconnor1411]

Yes! 👏

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻

[@shamanic1]

I am doubled-over by all the chumps believing (The C-I- freakin’ A) story that we failed to grab the sub! 🤣🤣🤣 Stop! You believed who??!! Oh that’s rich! Stop! My sides hurt!

[@brentcoates5470]

God I hate reporters and “news”

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

God doesn't exist.

[@FatemaGhaffar]

BC IM 79.

[@PositronicDiscombobulator]

Good for the Americans. In an Ideal world they would've extended the hand of friendship and told them where it is. Out of respect for the families and victims. Perhaps it would've helped to end the perpetual funding for war and the conflicts we now have.

[@dustinandtarynwolfe5540]

Way to go L.A. Times. Another disappointment brought to us by mainstream journalism.

[@b0rd3n]

The fact that they 'lost' everything worth saving is a bit of a joke to me. Sure, sure, it 'can' happen... please, as much as we are all fools, stop this thing

[@waterlinestories]

Well maybe they did get it and just said that to throw the Russians off

[@glennac]

I’m sure the Soviets later went to the spot to check out what was left or not. They are evidently not talking either.

[@TrevorJohnson-hp1ph]

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@waterlinestories]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@stevencoardvenice]

WHEN ITS GOT YA. ITS GOT YA. DELTA P

[@gawne87]

Anyone else think that it would been a bit of a waste I mean it was raised nearly a decade later how much intel could be gained from the portion they raised and what if any tech or intelligence did they gather ? If it was like a couple of years later and you salvaged some key components and back engineered it and implemented some new advancements on US subs it would ultimately pay off but this was way off

[@johnoneill5661]

Imagine how much bitching, moaning and complaining america would have done if it had been the Russians stealing a sunken american submarine.

[@Larry-mk9ry]

It's not stealing in the conventional sense. It was the time of real James Bond stuff. This was the Cold War, the USSR spied of everything they possibly could. They had people raised in imitation USA camps, watching baseball games and speaking with the regional US accent of wherever they were to be placed. We couldn't equal that level of espionage, but we did pull off the Glomar Explorer caper. The espionage on both ends served a purpose to some extent; it damped down the hardest fears that the other side was about to do X, any day now. But we didn't know until after the Cold War that the USSR did have occupation plans for Western Europe; they even had new road signs in Russian for the cities they expected to take over. As it happened, Bond won and SMERSH lost.