The crew of the Knorr investigation ship under the direction of oceanographer Robert Ballard in 1985 had 1 task: to find the wreck of the Titanic. But it was just a cover. Ballard has been trying for years to find a "practically unsinkable" ship. However, the U.S. Navy utilized its deep-sea imaging strategy called Argo not to find the Titanic, but to find why 2 nuclear-powered submarines, USS Thresher and USS Scorpion, sank in the Atlantic in the 1960s. That was the mission's overriding goal. Ballard persuaded the Navy to "in their spare time" and after fulfilling the main objectives of the mission, researchers could effort to find the wreck of the liner. However, he did not anticipate the success of this mission.
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"At the time, people, or at least most of them, did not know that the search for Titanic was a cover for a top-secret military operation that I was conducting as a naval intelligence officer," he said in an interview with CNN Ballard and added that the US did not want the Soviets to know about the mission and themselves found submarines.
On the night of 31 August, on 1 September, a distinctive but blurred metallic cylinder appeared on the ship's black and white monitors. A four-man squad of reflection crew suspected from the first moments that it was a boiler of a sunk ship. So he immediately sent a cook to wake up Ballard sleeping. He didn't even finish his sentence. I jumped out of bed. I virtually put on a pyjamas suit that I didn't take off for a fewer more days - he mentioned in an interview with CNN. - There's been a fuss," he added.
RMS Titanic was expected to be unsinkable. For years, not only have researchers been fascinated
The discovery of a legendary wreck has caused a real sensation. Ballard was the first to personally visit the wreck on board the Alvin Bathyskaf. He besides documented items left on board, including cutlery, toys, and even corked bottles of champagne. For an oceanographer, it was not the only success in a career. 4 years later, in 1989, he located the wreckage of the German battleship Bismarck, and in 1998 the aircraft carrier Yorktown, sunk during the conflict of Midway.
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Titanic, a "practically unsinkable" liner from under the White Star Line, was the world's largest passenger steam ship on a maiden voyage. He left the port of Southampton, but never reached the destination port of fresh York. At night from 14 to 15 April 1912 he collided with an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean waters. Many times they tried to find the crash site. Ballard did it. In the following years, the wreckage of Titanic has been visited by more researchers and tourists. It has remained protected by the UNESCO Convention since 2012. After the sinking of the Titan submarine in 2023, tourist expeditions to the wreckage were halted.
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