in the early 1980s Cold War tensions are
rising America’s new president ronald
reagan has given the military one
priority challenge the Soviets
everywhere the Navy really wasn’t
interested in one site Anna I had to
build a whole thought process a logic of
why the Navy should fund me to do what I
want to do and the only reason I could
convince them to do that is if I did
what they wanted me to do this
technology Ballard’s pitch the video
technology he is building to find
Titanic can also gather intelligence on
the ocean floor American or Soviet I
think the Navy could benefit from a
greater sir I’m a geologist an
underwater mapper and I go into unknown
terrain and I map it and then I collect
things from it to the Navy it’s not
mapping and sampling it’s it’s searching
finding and recovering lost things so
they have a great interest in the same
technology the Navy generally peers into
the ocean depths with sonar a technique
that finds an object by bouncing
soundwaves off of it but sonar can’t
tell a rock from a hunk of metal
Ballard’s cameras will deliver the
clearest images the Navy’s ever had of
even the smallest debris
the Admiral is impressed of course it’s
technology was valuable well the ocean
is littered with all kinds of
interesting intelligence i can tell you
Admiral Thun Minh won’t send Ballard to
hunt Titanic but he wants him to revisit
a pair of tragedies that shook the Navy
deeply in the 1960s the loss of two top
secret nuclear submarines for the USS
scorpion yes sir USS Thresher yes sir
i’m thinking maybe your equipment help
us both were attack subs fast quiet
boats built to hunt down their Soviet
counterparts the first the thresher sank
in 1963 with a hundred and twenty-nine
aboard the second the Scorpion
disappeared in 1968 with the loss of 99
they were America’s worst submarine
disasters since world war two and the
Navy investigated them thoroughly but
was limited by its tools now it wants to
see what more Ballard and his high-tech
eyes can uncover with the cold war on
dollard’s expedition must be kept secret
sure we didn’t want Soviet Union to find
those summer we didn’t want them to go
to the thresher and Scorpion and Oh
Graham your students Ballard will
conduct thorough surveys of the two
sunken subs hunt for further evidence of
what sank them and find their nuclear
reactors I’d like to find them Ballard
signs on to the clandestine operation if
he gets something in return I saw a look
that’s fair enough but if there’s any
time left over I would like to take that
extra time
look for the Titanic Nina we have a deal
i think the Navy will fund Ballard’s
equipment and he’ll get time once his
secret missions are done to hunt Titanic
I told him do whatever you want just
don’t spend any more money probably
should have done that sworn in to active
duty robert ballard becomes the US
Navy’s newest undercover agent whose
brief is the ocean floor
rising America’s new president ronald
reagan has given the military one
priority challenge the Soviets
everywhere the Navy really wasn’t
interested in one site Anna I had to
build a whole thought process a logic of
why the Navy should fund me to do what I
want to do and the only reason I could
convince them to do that is if I did
what they wanted me to do this
technology Ballard’s pitch the video
technology he is building to find
Titanic can also gather intelligence on
the ocean floor American or Soviet I
think the Navy could benefit from a
greater sir I’m a geologist an
underwater mapper and I go into unknown
terrain and I map it and then I collect
things from it to the Navy it’s not
mapping and sampling it’s it’s searching
finding and recovering lost things so
they have a great interest in the same
technology the Navy generally peers into
the ocean depths with sonar a technique
that finds an object by bouncing
soundwaves off of it but sonar can’t
tell a rock from a hunk of metal
Ballard’s cameras will deliver the
clearest images the Navy’s ever had of
even the smallest debris
the Admiral is impressed of course it’s
technology was valuable well the ocean
is littered with all kinds of
interesting intelligence i can tell you
Admiral Thun Minh won’t send Ballard to
hunt Titanic but he wants him to revisit
a pair of tragedies that shook the Navy
deeply in the 1960s the loss of two top
secret nuclear submarines for the USS
scorpion yes sir USS Thresher yes sir
i’m thinking maybe your equipment help
us both were attack subs fast quiet
boats built to hunt down their Soviet
counterparts the first the thresher sank
in 1963 with a hundred and twenty-nine
aboard the second the Scorpion
disappeared in 1968 with the loss of 99
they were America’s worst submarine
disasters since world war two and the
Navy investigated them thoroughly but
was limited by its tools now it wants to
see what more Ballard and his high-tech
eyes can uncover with the cold war on
dollard’s expedition must be kept secret
sure we didn’t want Soviet Union to find
those summer we didn’t want them to go
to the thresher and Scorpion and Oh
Graham your students Ballard will
conduct thorough surveys of the two
sunken subs hunt for further evidence of
what sank them and find their nuclear
reactors I’d like to find them Ballard
signs on to the clandestine operation if
he gets something in return I saw a look
that’s fair enough but if there’s any
time left over I would like to take that
extra time
look for the Titanic Nina we have a deal
i think the Navy will fund Ballard’s
equipment and he’ll get time once his
secret missions are done to hunt Titanic
I told him do whatever you want just
don’t spend any more money probably
should have done that sworn in to active
duty robert ballard becomes the US
Navy’s newest undercover agent whose
brief is the ocean floor
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