A couple of years ago I attended a public talk by Ballard in which he told this story. My recollection is that according to him when it became public that he had discovered the Titanic (I don't remember how that happened) the Navy found someone else to take credit for funding the search so they wouldn't have to explain why they had done so.
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A couple of years ago I attended a public talk by Ballard in which he told this story. My recollection is that according to him when it became public that he had discovered the Titanic (I don't remember how that happened) the Navy found someone else to take credit for funding the search so they wouldn't have to explain why they had done so.