Oceanographer Robert Ballard investigated two downed submarines for the U.S. military, before using the mission’s remaining time to look for the Titanic. A more complicated truth about the search came into focus years later.
A more complicated truth about the search came into focus years later. Ballard, an accomplished oceanographer, had discovered the ship’s location on the tail end of a top-secret U.S. Navy investigation into the fates of two sunken nuclear submarines.“The Navy never expected me to find the Titanic, and so when that happened, they got really nervous because of the publicity,” BallardAdvertisementhundreds of songs, dozens of books and a handful of movies, as well as new safety measures for ships.
Instead, they wanted Ballard to travel to the sites of the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion, which had sunk in the north Atlantic Ocean in 1963 and 1968, respectively. The Navy wanted Ballard to photograph the wrecks. It was interested in the fate of the submarines’ nuclear reactors and whether there was any evidence that the U.S.S.R., still immersed in the Cold War with the United States, had shot down the Scorpion.
Ballard realized that knowledge could be the breakthrough he had been looking for. If he could find the Titanic’s line of debris, he could find the vessel. When Ballard got to the ship’s control van, his colleagues showed him what their sonar- and camera-equipped robot had detected. One of the Titanic’s boilers was visible through the grainy footage,Seventy-three years and many failed search missions after the Titanic sank, the world’s most famous ship had finally been found.
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