Ballard, Robert Duane (1942- )
American oceanographer and archaeologist
Robert Ballard has participated in over 100 deep-sea expeditions during his career. Ballard is perhaps most well known for leadi...
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Robert D. Ballard (born 1942) has made some of the most important underwater discoveries in the late twentieth century in regard to science and exploration. Not only did he help advance the concept of...
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The explosive-laden wreck of a World War II torpedo boat has risen from the Pacific Ocean off the Solomon Islands, pushed above the water by a powerful earthquake, an official said Friday.The boat ...
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Exactly 145 years after the USS Monitor faced the Confederate ship CSS Virginia in the first clash of ironclads, a $30 million center dedicated to the Union vessel opened Friday.The USS Monitor Cen...
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A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said.Lillian Ruth Simpson, of Juneau, Alaska, told th...
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Famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard is leading a team of scientists heading into the Gulf of Mexico for a weeklong examination of Texas' ancient shoreline to see if anybody may have lived there....
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Undersea explorer Robert Ballard leans back and smiles at the screens arrayed above his desk. One displays a view of a remote operating vessel, another scans along a seafloor never before viewed by...
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Ballard, Robert Duane (1942- )
Robert Ballard
WWII boat rises from sea off Solomons
