Robert Ballard
Robert Ballard
Robert Duane Ballardis a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth30 June 1942
CityWichita, KS
CountryUnited States of America
My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
The Titanic will protect itself.
Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
I prefer sayings over jokes.
I can't travel without Sudoku.
Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?
Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.