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...President asserted that he had meant to say that bombers and submarines, not their missiles, could be called back. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt, it was a misleading statement. Bombers indeed could be recalled after taking off, but missile-firing submarines are continuously deployed in undersea locations from which they could launch nuclear warheads at the Soviet Union. In a crisis they would stay put awaiting instructions on whether to fire their missiles; their commanders certainly would not be told to head back to port...
...seven earlier expeditions had failed to find it. By contrast, Harrington's company, Sub-Sal of Reno, Nev., pinpointed the site in just three weeks last April, thanks to state-of-the-art devices that are making treasure hunters both more scientific and more successful. Where once these undersea detectives took a wild plunge with ancient charts and a hunch, the modern salvage team can reduce the search area to the site of a small lake, and hunt for pieces of gold no bigger than a pencil eraser...
...Sophisticated recovery techniques are needed to get at the loot. Various blowers are sometimes used to dislodge sand. The airlift, a sort of giant vacuum cleaner attached to the search ship via a long plastic tube, removes layers of sediment while divers sift for treasure. Diving methods developed for undersea commercial uses, such as seabed mining and pipeline building, have made it possible to salvage deep-water wrecks. A notable example: H.M.S. Edinburgh, a British cruiser that sank after a Nazi attack in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, U.S.S.R., during World War II. The Edinburgh was located with sonar...
...easily identifiable be cause they glow in the dark. During the past eight months, one nuclear sub foundered in deep water off the Siberian pen insula of Kamchatka and a second was disabled off the U.S. East Coast when the craft's propeller became entangled in an undersea surveillance cable...
When mounted in an airplane, they were supposed to be able to detect undersea oil deposits from altitudes as high as 21,000 ft. Elf-Aquitaine, France's state-owned petroleum company, spent more than $150 million for research and development on the equipment in the 1970s. Yet no oil was ever found. In fact, there is no evidence that ' the expensive devices worked at all. A Belgian count who sold them to Elf has vanished, along with the money. As a result, the leftist government of President Francois Mitterrand is accusing its center-right predecessor of lying...