For Ballard, the Navy mission was an opportunity to put his equipment through a trial run prior to his search for the Titanic, which was lost 100 years ago this past April. The Thresher (SSN 593 ...

Director James Cameron called Ballard regularly for information and advice throughout the filming of his 1997 movie “Titanic,” and later dragged him to the film’s DC premiere.

Ballard met with Ronald Thunman, who was then the deputy chief of naval operations for submarine warfare, and proposed that the search for the Titanic should be a part of the mission.

Robert Ballard found the Titanic in September 1985 with the support of the US Navy. The hunt for the Titanic was cover for a secret Navy mission to investigate two submarine wrecks.

The search for the Titanic was a cover for a top secret Navy mission involving the use of undersea systems to explore two submarine wrecks. And Ballard convinced the service his discovery would ...

In 1985, Bob Ballard, a Naval officer-turned-ocean archaeologist, dragged a deep-sea robot over the site and, using powerful sonar and a video feed, found it. It was the first time anyone had ...

He’s reluctant to talk about his 1985 discovery of the legendary lost ocean liner RMS Titanic, although Robert Ballard knows it made him famous. He ruefully admitted a few times Tuesday to 150 ...

He claimed it was a cover story and that he was really searching for a lost submarine.

Titanic: The Last Great Images Robert Ballard. Running Press Book Publishers, $40 (191pp) ISBN 978-0-7624-3504-3 ...

Dr Robert Ballard the unknown explorer who discovered the sunk Titanic returned to Belfast City to make a documentary, marking the centenary of the tragic disaster. Belfast was the obvious choice ...

A former US Navy officer who first discovered the wreck of Titanic has described how the mission was originally a ruse to fool the Soviet Union. Dr Robert Ballard said he was searching for a US ...