Search for Titanic was nuclear search cover story

A real life Tom Clancy like spy story. [Link]

"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," the Times of London and others report.

Dr. Robert Ballard, an oceanographer, has admitted that he located and inspected the wrecks for the US Navy [in 1985] in top secret missions before he was allowed to search for the Titanic...

“I couldn’t tell anybody,” he said. “There was a lot of pressure on me. It was a secret mission. I felt it was a fair exchange for getting a chance to look for the Titanic...