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by dataviz1000 593 days ago
Classic example of academic research funded by the military.

> In 1985, the wreck was finally located by a joint French–American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, originally on a mission to find two nuclear Cold War submarines.

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This is referencing the Titanic, for anyone confused.