Titanic search was a Soviet ruse: Ballard

By Rebecca Black
Updated July 25 2018 - 2:46am, first published 2:44am
Robert Ballard's discovery of the Titanic wreck came about due to his search for a lost submarine.
Robert Ballard's discovery of the Titanic wreck came about due to his search for a lost submarine.

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.