"Titanic search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission"
Times (UK) (May 24, 2008)
"The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery 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...."
" 'I couldn't tell anybody,' he said. 'There was a lot of pressure on me. It was a secret mission. I felt it was a fair exchange for getting a chance to look for the Titanic.
"... 'We handed the data to the experts. They never told us what they concluded – our job was to collect the data. I can only talk about it now because it has been declassified.' ..."
Strikes me as a reasonable trade: the researcher had expertise but not enough money, the American military had enough money, but not the researcher's abilities.
(I suppose, though, it's only a matter of time before someone decides that America sank the Titanic so that there would be a cover story for an undersea search.)
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