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Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story

Posted by timothy on from the just-like-in-the-spy-who-loved-me dept.

wiredog writes "According to National Geographic, Robert Ballard's search for the RMS Titanic in 1985 was a cover operation for the real search: They were looking for the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion, two US nuclear submarines that sank during the Cold War." ABC News also has a story on this two-fer undersea search.

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  1. In other news by InvisblePinkUnicorn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bush's search for WMDs in Iraq was actually a cover story for the real search: Where's Waldo?

    1. Re:In other news by VValdo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Where?!

      W

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  2. Titanic 2: Underwater Love by Forrest+Kyle · · Score: 5, Funny

    So is James Cameron going to make a 3 hour chick flick where a young enlisted man falls in love with a high ranking officer, and they make love in the engine room while the Captain, the officer's life partner, searches frantically for him. Then the submarine starts to sink and the gay enlisted man gives the officer the last life jacket and the officer says, "I'll never let go!" and then he lets go and James Cameron wins 200 more Oscars?

    1. Re:Titanic 2: Underwater Love by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      So is James Cameron going to make a 3 hour chick flick where a young enlisted man falls in love with a high ranking officer, and they make love in the engine room while the Captain, the officer's life partner, searches frantically for him. Then the submarine starts to sink and the gay enlisted man gives the officer the last life jacket and the officer says, "I'll never let go!" and then he lets go and James Cameron wins 200 more Oscars? It's like a slash fanfic adapted for twitter.
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  3. Titantic title unfair by gihan_ripper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, RMS might be a little on the large size, but Titanic? Come on.

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    1. Re:Titantic title unfair by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's GNU/Titanic. Get it right.

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    2. Re:Titantic title unfair by berashith · · Score: 5, Funny

      Titanic
      Is
      Totally
      Another
      Non
      Immersible
      Craft

  4. Re:Old News by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    (by the way, I'm joking for the humor impaired) By definition, the humor impaired won't understand your jokes, so there's no point in joking for them. Better to joke for the rest of us.
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  5. just to let everyone know... by SethJohnson · · Score: 5, Funny



    A friend of mine who is an editor on the 'reality' TV show, 'The Deadliest Catch,' told me it's actually a documentary on the search for the Russian sub that sank in 2003 while it was being towed to the scrapyard. Most of the work he has to do is replace the unmanned search subs with CGI crab pots in every shot.

    The producers are financing the search for the nuclear sub by selling it to the Discovery Channel as a fishing show. Once they find the submarine, then they're going to remove all the CGI and do a little more editing and re-sell the same footage back to the Discovery Channel as a submarine salvage show.

    Still no word on what the producers are planning to do with the nuclear kit they're hunting for.

    Seth

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