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The Hughes Mining Barge, or HMB-1, is a submersible barge about 99 m (324 ft) long, 32 m (106 ft) wide, and more than 27 m (90 ft) tall. The HMB-1 was originally developed as part of Project Azorian (more widely, but erroneously, known as "Project Jennifer"), the top-secret effort mounted by the Central Intelligence Agency to salvage the wreckage of the Soviet submarine K-129 from the ocean floor.
Back by popular demand, the lucrative Undersea Explorer has returned to Happy Island. Previously available as a limited time purchase, the offer is back for those who originally missed out.
During an underwater tour of Catalina Island, passengers aboard the SS Nautilus couldn't avoid thinking about the loss of the Titan submersible -- but that didn't stop them from boarding.
OceanGate transported its first paying customers in the vessel in 2010 off the coast of Catalina Island in California. The submersible was later contracted to expeditions to explore corals, lionfish populations in Florida, and a former oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. [9] By 2013 OceanGate had made over 130 dives with the vessel. [9] [23] [52]
A Balao-class submarine that was sunk as a target off San Clemente Island. Charles F. Crocker: 1929 A barquentine that was run aground and dismasted for a movie off Santa Catalina Island, sometime around 1929. The wreck was later burned, and then moved further inland by a tidal bore. Dauntless: 3 October 1928
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The United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) is a laboratory that performs integrated three-dimensional hydrospace/aerospace trajectory measurements covering the entire spectrum of undersea simulated warfare – calibration, classifications, detection, and destruction.
A massive search ramped up as authorities probed the North Atlantic for a tourist submarine that went missing over the weekend on an expedition to explore the famous Titanic shipwreck.