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The Titanic Discovery Was a Cover Story for a Secret Navy Mission

The most famous shipwreck in history was found almost by accident. It was the cover story for a secret mission. In nineteen eighty-five, an explorer named Robert Ballard wanted to find the Titanic, lost on the floor of the Atlantic for over seventy years.

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