Gerard Barron

And they literally just sit on the seafloor like the one in my hand.

So it's only a matter of time that we got around to it and there was a false start back in the 70s When and that's that's another story right because the CIA were very involved in getting this whole industry started really why so well

It has nothing to do with mining.

But it was a great cover story.

Yeah.

And the Russian submarine, which had nuclear warheads on it, the K-129, sank in the Pacific.

It had set sail from a Russian port.

And the Americans were, this is dating back to 1968, the Americans had already implanted listing devices on the seafloor around the Pacific so they could detect nuclear explosion and other activities.

And so when they were tracking this submarine,

and all of a sudden they heard an explosion.

And the Russians didn't have this same technology installed in the oceans.

And so the Americans quickly clocked onto it and the CIA got involved.

But they had to have a reason to be out there because the Russians were looking for their lost submarine and they'd had no idea where it was.

They could just say, well, it left this port this time and we last heard at this date in this location.

So...

The CIA went ahead and started to plan how they could recover this.

First, they needed to establish, were the warheads in place?

Were they worth recovering?

And when they decided, yes, they were, they said, well, actually, we can't just go and pick them up because the Russians, it'll become an international incident.

We might have World War III on our hands.