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The Glomar Explorer ship is seen anchored in the U.S. Navy's National Defense Reserve Fleet anchored in Suisan Bay, California in this U.S. Navy handout file photo taken on May 15, 1977 and released to Reuters by the Archives Branch of The U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, September 3, 2015. The ship, built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub is heading to the scrap yard, a victim of the slide in oil prices. Christened the Hughes Glomar Explorer, after billionaire Howard Hughes was brought in on the CIA's deception, the 619-foot vessel eventually became part of the fleet of ships used by Swiss company Transocean to drill for oil. (Photo by Reuters/US Navy/Archives Branch, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington)
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