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
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.
If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?
Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
The Titanic will protect itself.
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.
Don't confuse facts with reality.
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.
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
I can't travel without Sudoku.
I love all of the Earth.