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Every loss it the worst thing. In terms of numbers, the vessel Glomar was lost with a crew of 81. Or the largest, the vessel Berge Istra of 227,912 tons.

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The Glomar Explorer, built by CIA for the purpose of retrieving a sunken Soviet nuclear sub, was launched in 1972. It was launched under the name 'Hughes Glomar Explorer'; the CIA knew that a ship of that size and capacity could not be kept secret from the Soviets, so they made an agreement with Howard Hughes to use his company, Global Marine Development Inc., as a cover for the expedition. The mission was successful, most of the Soviet K-129 was retrieved to study the Soviet technology. When the mission was completed, In 1978, it was leased by an oil consortium for exploration and in 1997 was converted into a deep sea drilling rig. The Glomar Explorer is currently on leased to Marathon Oil for drilling offshore Indonesia; that lease goes through to 2012.

The Glomar Challenger was launched in 1968 under contract between the National Science Foundation and The Regents, University of California. For 30 months the ship was used for drilling and coring in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans as well as the Mediterranean and Red Seas. The purpose of the Glomar Challenger was scientific exploration. From 1972 until 1983, the ship was used to study the earth's crust, the formation of mountain ranges, earthquakes, and deep sea trenches. In 1985, the ship was retired and replaced by a ship with more modern equipment. Because of the many successful accomplishments of the Glomar Challenger, parts of the ship, such as its dynamic positioning system, engine telegraph, and thruster console, are stored at the Smithsonian Institution.

The MS Berge Istra was a Norwegian ore-bulk oil carrier, built in 1972 in Croatia. It was lost in the Pacific Ocean (not the Atlantic) near Mindanao, Philippines in 1975 with a loss of 30 people and two rescued from a life boat. The suspected cause of the loss was residue oil in the cargo hold where iron ore was stored, resulting in an explosion. The sister ship the MS Berge Vanga, also a carrier of ore and oil, disappeared under similar circumstances four years later enroute from Brazil to Japan (nowhere near the triangle). The loss of life for the Berge Vanga was 40. The two disasters halted the practice of dual use carriers.

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