From American Profile "Ocean Exolorer: Robert Ballard surveys Earth's final frontier" by Varyn Davis.
Robert balard finds it strange that we went to the Moon before fully investigating the seas that cover 71% of the Earth. He has great respect for early explorers like Lewis and Cklark and James Cook.
He is founder and president of the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Ct., and has conducted more than 120 deep-sea diving expeditions., most famous of which was the finding of the RMS Titanic. But, he also has found the World War II aircraft carrier Yorktown and German battleship Bismarck.
He was born in Wichita, Kansas, but moved early to San Diego where he developed his love of the sea. he consideres his most significant find to be the natural hydrothermal vents in 1977 in the Galapagos Rift.
Growing up, I always dreamed of looking for sunken things. Had I not gone into teaching, this may very well have been my career. I even learned how to scuba dive.
Maybe Ballard Has the Perfect Job? --Cooter
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