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So it was around this point in time the US Navy gave the support to Ballard in helping develop the remote imaging system, ARGO. However, the Navy, they also had some additional uses for the technology. They wanted to use it to determine why two nuclear submarines, the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion sank the Atlantic back in the 1960s. In fact, the Thresher, it went down April 10, 1963. The Scorpion went down May 22, 1968. So the Navy also wanted to use the new technology for Cold War intelligence gathering. Stop it.