Robert Ballard

By cunningboy

  • graduated from University of California, starting in the army

    he completed us army's ROTC program, he gained Army officer's commission in Arny itelligence
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    Robs adventures

  • starting active duty

    he was transferred from the army to the us navy as an oceanographer

  • First dive

    his first dive was in the Ben Franklin (PX-15) during a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution expedition

  • the start of the 9000 dive

    Robert started his 9000 feet dive in the Alvin, more likely doing repeated attempts to get that deep

  • the end of the 9000 feet dive

    he finally made it to 9000 feet in 1975 in the Alvin

  • Galapagos Rift

    he uncovered thermal vents in the galapagos rift

  • start of finding the Titanic

    he was on the U>S Navy research ship Knorr looking for the Titanic

  • finding the Titanic

    the first images of the Titanic where its giant boilers. then the video revealed that the Titanic where in two pieces, the hull was upright and largelzy intact

  • returning to the site of the Titanic

    he returned, travelling to the underwater wreckage