So what were we really hunting when we found the Titanic?
Search For Titanic Really Was Cover-Up Mission
The U.S. Didn’t Want Soviets to Locate and Exploit Sunken Submarines
When oceanographer Bob Ballard uncovered the world’s most famous shipwreck in 1985, he grabbed the globe’s attention. But in reality the explorer’s search for the Titanic was a cover-up for a top-secret mission for the U.S. government.
Ballard reveals he was hired to use his advanced robotic sub to check on the status of two nuclear submarines, the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion, that sank in the Atlantic in the 1960s.
“The Navy didn’t want the Soviets to know they were looking for these subs,” Ballard said on “Good Morning America” today.
The guise of searching for the Titanic’s wreckage provided a perfect alibi for the intensified presence of U.S. ships on the Atlantic. Ballard was under strict instructions for the last two decades not to talk to anyone at the time about how he secretly sought out the two subs. </em>
So, if we hadn’t been in a cold war with Russia, that wretched James Cameron movie never would have been made?
Dammit!
