Oceanographer Robert Ballard (now 76) wanted all his life to go in search of the wreck of the Titanic. In 1985, he got his chance. Thanks to a crafty deal with the Navy, which the Titanic mission used as a cover for another, top secret operation, to the Russians to the garden.
“You let me do what I want, if I do what you want.” That was succinctly summarized the deal that Robert Ballard closed with the head of the Naval Operations of the American army, Ronald Thunman. Ballard was in the Navy going to ask for money to his own remotely controlled underwater robot to finance. He wanted another to the wreck of the unsinkable dear luxeschip Titanic search. The Titanic was on her maiden voyage on 15 april 1912 sank.
Ballard was Thunman, on the condition that he first two submarines of the Us Navy would find: the Thresher and the Scorpion. A secret command, because the Navy did not want the Russians to them before. It was the early 80’s, the Cold War was still in full swing. The two submarines were in the 60s, sank in the Atlantic Ocean and were in Russian hands.
