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
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?
Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.
I prefer sayings over jokes.
I love all of the Earth.