Titanic search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission
The discovery of wreck of the Titanic was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines. When Bob Ballard led a team that pinpointed the wreckage of the liner in 1985 he had already completed his main task of finding out what happened to USS Thresher and USS Scorpion.*** Apparently... this is old news... but I didn't know about it, so deal with it...***
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