Forty years ago, Navy officer Robert Ballard struck gold at the bottom of the ocean.
While on a top secret Navy mission to locate two submarines that had gone missing during the Cold War, he not only found them but also the remains of the Titanic.
The location of the giant, luxury liner was unknown since striking an iceberg in 1912 and sinking into the deep blue water of the North Atlantic Ocean. Ballard found it in 1985 about 400 miles off Newfoundland’s coast…