Reginald ballard biography

Robert Ballard Biography

Robert Ballard is a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island and a retired United States Navy officer. He is mostly recognized for his work in underwater archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks.

He made the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic, battleship Bismarck, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown.

Additionally, he discovered John F. Kennedy’s PT-109 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana.

He joined the search for the iconic lost pilot in the new National Geographic special Expedition Amelia in 2002.

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He was aboard the French research ship Le Suit. it was using the side scan sonar SAR to search for the Titanic’s wreck in the summer of 1985.

In 1982, he had approached the Navy about his new deep sea underwater robot craft the Argo, and his search for the Titanic.

Though the Navy had no interest in financing the research, they were interested in finding out what happened to their missing submarine. Later, th