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Titanic search a cover for submarine mission

Wed, 28 May 2008 09:57:20 GMT

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Titanic search a cover for submarine mission

A mission to discover the wreck of the Titanic was actually a cover a story for examining the remains of two Cold War nuclear submarines, the man who located the liner has revealed.

Dr Bob Ballard, an oceanographer, has admitted that he had to locate and inspect the remains of the vessels, which sank during the 1960s, in a top secret mission for the US navy before he was allowed to look for the Titanic.

He said: "I couldn't tell anybody. There was a lot of pressure on me. It was a secret mission. I felt it was a fair exchange for getting a chance to look for the Titanic."

He added: "We handed the data to the experts. They never told us what they concluded – our job was to collect the data. I can only talk about it now because it has been declassified."

It was only once these missions were complete that Dr Ballard located the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, which sank in 1912 after it hit an iceberg with the loss of 1,500 lives.

Touched by his Noodly Appendage

Sun, 25 May 2008 14:55:03 GMT

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Worlds Tallest Lego Tower

Sun, 25 May 2008 13:28:00 GMT

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The world's tallest Lego tower which took 500,000 bricks to build

Visitors to Legoland Windsor yesterday helped set a new world record for the tallest tower made of Lego bricks.

Thousands of children and their families helped put the final bricks in place to complete the monster structure, which stands nearly 100ft tall.

The tower is designed to resemble a Viking longboat mast to mark the opening of the new Land of the Vikings at the Berkshire theme park.

Positioned at the park's main entrance, it is made up of almost half a million Lego bricks and celebrates 50 years of the popular children's toy.