For more than seventy years, the wreck of the Titanic lay hidden in the depths of the North Atlantic. Countless attempts to find it had failed, leaving the site of one of history’s greatest maritime tragedies shrouded in mystery. That changed in 1985, when a team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard announced they had found the lost ship.

What the public did not know at the time was that the discovery was tied to a top-secret US Navy mission carried out in the heat of the Cold War.

The RMS Titanic sank in April 1912 after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew. Its exact resting place remained unknown for decades, inspiring theories, expeditions, and even hoaxes. Meanwhile, during the Cold War, the US Navy faced its own maritime mysteries . Two nuclear submar

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