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 [...]
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Titanic search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission
Posted by Matt in May 23rd, 2008 | no comment
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Weak rivets a possible key to Titanic’s doom
Posted by Matt in April 18th, 2008 | no comment
For a decade, metallurgists studying the hulk of the Titanic have argued that the storied ocean liner went down quickly after hitting an iceberg because the ship’s builder used substandard rivets that popped their heads and let tons of icy seawater rush in. More than 1,500 people died.
Now a team of scientists has moved into [...]
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