Titanic search was a cover to look for two lost SSN

Linton · 05-24-08, 07:45 AM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019...ne-search.html

Subnuts · 05-24-08, 08:42 AM

I find it amusing that Dr. Ballard is "revealing" something he "revealed" years ago in a Titanic documentary that I watched sometime in the mid '90s.

Syxx_Killer · 05-24-08, 02:02 PM

Yeah, this is definitely not anything new. I think I remember the documentary Subnuts is talking about. It's been awhile, but I thought he even mentioned it in his book The Discovery of the Titanic?

TLAM Strike · 05-27-08, 02:56 PM

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The oceanographer was given funding to embark on two expeditions, one to find the wreck of Thresher in 1984 off the eastern coast of the US, and another to find Scorpion in the eastern Atlantic.

Find the Thresher and Scorpion? Total BS! The TAGOR-11 Mitzar found the Scorpion in Oct 1968! The wreck of the Thresher was located in 1963-64 also by the Mitzar.

I've seen Bob Ballard quite a bit on TV lately and I'm under the impresson he likes to talk up his own importance.

I don't see why this was secret at all!? Why would the Navy keep a mission to look at two of its sunken submarines under wraps? Everyone knew they were sunk and that they sent missions out to look at them before.

Maybe the real mission was to take a peek at the old K-8!

:hmm:

mrbeast · 05-27-08, 04:48 PM

IIRC there was nothing left of the Thresher to find, just a few fragments of hull littering the seabed. She went so deep before her pressure hull failed that she was totally destroyed.

antikristuseke · 05-27-08, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

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The oceanographer was given funding to embark on two expeditions, one to find the wreck of Thresher in 1984 off the eastern coast of the US, and another to find Scorpion in the eastern Atlantic.

Find the Thresher and Scorpion? Total BS! The TAGOR-11 Mitzar found the Scorpion in Oct 1968! The wreck of the Thresher was located in 1963-64 also by the Mitzar.

Dont let the facts get in the way of a good yarn.

Syxx_Killer · 05-27-08, 05:21 PM

It wasn't really a search for the subs so much as it was to test new equipment. The Navy already knew where the subs were. The point of the mission was really so Ballard could test the new ROV Jason. I'm still puzzled, though, why they are treating this as new information when it has actually been known for a long time.

kiwi_2005 · 05-28-08, 07:57 AM

'Blind Mans Bluff' book mentions about the Thresher & Scorpion being found in the 60's

Kapitan · 05-28-08, 02:19 PM

Wouldnt be surprised if the K8 has been dived on, not much to show though it was pretty much obsolete and out of date when she sank anyway, but the americans do like to take a peak what ever it is.

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Syxx_Killer Admiral Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 2,387 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Yeah, this is definitely not anything new. I think I remember the documentary Subnuts is talking about. It's been awhile, but I thought he even mentioned it in his book The Discovery of the Titanic?

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Syxx_Killer Admiral Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 2,387 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	It wasn't really a search for the subs so much as it was to test new equipment. The Navy already knew where the subs were. The point of the mission was really so Ballard could test the new ROV Jason. I'm still puzzled, though, why they are treating this as new information when it has actually been known for a long time.