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A Top- Secret Navy Mission led to the discovery of the Titanic
A Top- Secret Navy Mission led to the discovery of the Titanic
The mission that discovered the Titanic was facilitated by a top-secret Navy project.
Claiming the lives of more than 1,500 of its passengers, the sinking of the Titanic is perhaps the most well-known maritime disaster. After hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage, the ocean liner sank to a depth of over 12,000 feet. There it sat for the next 73 years, an unseen reminder of the cost of human error. In 1985, famed oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard managed to discover the wreck, but he wouldn’t have managed to do so if it weren’t for a covert Navy expedition.
In 1982, Ballard asked the United States Navy to fund his search for the RMS Titanic. At the time, he had developed a robotic submarine that attracted the Navy’s interest, so they managed to strike a deal. The Navy would fund two secret ventures aimed at discovering the wrecks of the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion, two nuclear submarines that went missing in 1963, respectively 1968, and Ballard would be in charge of the operations.
If Dr. Ballard managed to find and map the two wrecks, he could use the remainder of the Navy capital to go looking for the Titanic.
He succeeded in finding the location of the two submarines and went on to discover the ship that was erroneously deemed ‘unsinkable’.
Source: http://locklip.com/
“…finding the location…”
They knew the locations. I remember seeing pictures of the Scorpion when i was in high school. Around 1970.
And the location of the Thresher was known.
In those days.