On finding the Titanic, Dr. Bob Ballard found the Titanic with the U.S Navy's help. Dr. Ballard likes to state they helped, but in reality he used their intelligence. The Navy has been mapping and placing sonar devices and other items all along the Ocean's surface.
Our Government can't use information for non-Governement money..in other words, the Navy couldn't retrieve anything from the Titanic for profit. They even let Dr.Ballard use some of their camera equipment to go that deep to video the wreck.
I do know this. The U.S. land mass has been photographed since about the 1940's. I used pictures in previous jobs to find out where old pipelines were located or had been, old businesses... .like oil or gas storage, old gas stations, old refineries, and other business to help with land remediation or the determination for what type of remediation.
There are aerial photgraphs, decade packages, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and others. Of course these were photos amd maps..not real time images.
Ted...not necessarily our government but another and maybe our government not wanting the Malasian government to start something we might be watching or gaining intel on.
Just my 2 cents...thats all.
Our Government can't use information for non-Governement money..in other words, the Navy couldn't retrieve anything from the Titanic for profit. They even let Dr.Ballard use some of their camera equipment to go that deep to video the wreck.
I do know this. The U.S. land mass has been photographed since about the 1940's. I used pictures in previous jobs to find out where old pipelines were located or had been, old businesses... .like oil or gas storage, old gas stations, old refineries, and other business to help with land remediation or the determination for what type of remediation.
There are aerial photgraphs, decade packages, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and others. Of course these were photos amd maps..not real time images.
Ted...not necessarily our government but another and maybe our government not wanting the Malasian government to start something we might be watching or gaining intel on.
Just my 2 cents...thats all.
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