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• You don’t let a historic site rot.

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• You don’t go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don’t take belt buckles off the Arizona.

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• 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.

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• What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

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• Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend – my best friend.

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• 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.

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• There’s a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

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• 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.

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• So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

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• 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.

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• It’s not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

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• I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

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• I prefer sayings over jokes.

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• I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It’s staggering.

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• I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

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• I love all of the Earth.

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• I can’t travel without Sudoku.

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• 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.

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• I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

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• I am a geologist.

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Birth:	30th June, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Naval Officer

About

Robert Duane Ballard is a former 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.

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