Tin foil hat watch: Titanic Was Found During Secret Cold War Navy Mission

The 1985 discovery of the Titanic stemmed from a secret United States Navy investigation of two wrecked nuclear submarines, according to the oceanographer who found the infamous ocean liner.

Pieces of this Cold War tale have been known since the mid-1990s, but more complete details are now coming to light, said Titanic’s discoverer, Robert Ballard.

“The Navy is finally discussing it,” said Ballard, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett and the Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration in Connecticut.

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Somehow the tin foil hat brigade is going to find a way to give a negative spin to this story.

The story, in a nutshell:

1. Scientist(s) have a cool robotic sub.

2. The US Navy has two missing nuclear subs.

3. The US Navy pays scientist(s) to look for the nuclear subs.

4. The scientist(s) mention that RMS Titanic happens to lie between the two sunken subs.

5. The US Navy basically could care less as long as the mission to look for the subs is completed first.

That's pretty much it.