Glomar Explorer
DEEP-SEA DRILLSHIP PLATFORM
Hughes Glomar Explorer; USS Glomar Explorer; USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193); USNS Glomar Explorer; IMO 7233292; GSF Explorer
GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division to recover the Soviet submarine K-129.Burleson 1997, p.