Robert Ballard Quotes

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
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.
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
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.
The Titanic will protect itself.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
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.
Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
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.
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
You don't let a historic site rot.
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