Robert Ballard
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Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for his work in underwater archaeology and marine geology. He is
Ballard in 2023
Ballard in 1999 with a VHS copy of the film Titanic
Wreck of the Titanic
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The wreck of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet, about 325 nautical miles south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. It lies in two main pieces about
Robert Ballard
…archaeology (maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks) and marine geology. He is best known by the general public 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…
The Titanic's bow in June 2004
The Titanic surfacing on a poster publicising the film Raise the Titanic. The scene depicted would not have been physically possible.
DSV Alvin, used in 1986 to mount the first crewed expedition to the wreck of the Titanic
The partly collapsed bathroom of Captain Edward Smith, with the bathtub filled with rusticles