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His search for the Titanic concealed a top-secret military operation
Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on the video feeds in the command center of Knorr, a research vessel searching the Atlantic seafloor for the world’s most famous shipwreck: the Titanic.

Members of the four-person watch team, suspecting the object might be a sunken ship’s boiler, were unable to tear themselves away from what was unfolding on the screen, so they dispatched the team’s cook to rouse Bob Ballard, the expedition’s chief scientist who had been searching for the wreck since the 1970s. He was awake, reading in his cabin bunk.

The cook “didn’t even finish his sentence. I jumped out. I literally put my flight suit over my pajamas, which I didn’t take off for several days after that,” recalled Ballard, senior scientist emeritus in applied ocean physics and engineering at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
CNN spoke to Ballard, and a member of his team, Dana Yoerger, a Woods Hole senior scientist in marine robotics, ahead of the 40th anniversary of the Titanic’s discovery. They recounted the unusual chain of events that led to that stunning sighting — and how the adventure didn’t stop there.

“As I came in, we had a picture of the boiler on the wall, and we looked,” Ballard said. “We realized it was definitely (from the) Titanic, and all bedlam grew loose.”

Even before Ballard and his team found the wreckage 73 years after the iconic vessel set sail in 1912, the Titanic was a source of ceaseless fascination. The “unsinkable” ship went down on its maiden voyage in a gilded age with American’s wealthiest on board, a tale of human folly, class prejudice and technological failure.
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Its discovery in 1985 only intensified the Titanic’s pull on the public imagination; it unleashed a 1997 blockbuster movie that remains one of the highest grossing in film history, several documentaries and museum exhibits, and for those with deep pockets, high-stakes trips to see its final resting place about 13,000 feet (3,900 meters) below the ocean’s surface, one of which, in 2023, resulted in fresh tragedy.
For ocean explorers such as Ballard and his colleagues, finding the Titanic was like climbing Mount Everest for the first time. The prototype technology that made it possible has since transformed deep-sea exploration and science, vastly expanding scientists’ knowledge of the ocean. But even with the right tools, it took an inspired shift in strategy to uncover the iconic shipwreck.

The Titanic before it departed on its fateful voyage. It sank on the night of April 14-15, 1912.
The Titanic before it departed on its fateful voyage. It sank on the night of April 14-15, 1912. Albert Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images
The search concealed a top-secret mission
The 1985 search for the Titanic was not Ballard’s first attempt at locating the wreckage. A 1977 expedition failed when a 3,000-foot drilling pipe to which sonar and cameras were attached snapped in two, according to Ballard’s 2021 memoir, “Into the Deep.” The experience, along with the need for live imagery, convinced Ballard that remotely operated underwater vehicles that could stream video back to the exploration vessel were a better way forward, but he struggled to find funding for his vision.

Ultimately, the US Navy supported the development of Ballard’s technology, a deep-sea imaging system nicknamed the Argo. The Navy was interested in using it to determine why two nuclear submarines, the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion, had sunk in the Atlantic in the 1960s, as well as for broader Cold War intelligence-gathering purposes.

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