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Robert Ballard's Collapse Of The Titanic

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For over seventy years, people were unable to find the wreckage of the Titanic. It wasn’t until Robert Ballard followed his passion of discovering the wreckage of the Titanic. Although the U.S. Navy had little to no interest in finding the Titanic, they were interested in discovering the wreckages of the U.S.S. Thresher and U.S.S. Scorpion. To satisfy both sides, the Navy agreed to fund Ballard’s journey in finding the Titanic, if only they were allowed to use his technology on their secret Cold War mission at that time. After accepting the Navy’s opportunity, Ballard set off to design the two main, unmanned, research vehicles named Knorr and Argo. Finally, after a few years later, Ballard was able to discover the wreckage of the Titanic at

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