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The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
Robert Ballard
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Robert Ballard
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 30
Academic
Film Director
Geologist
Naval Officer
Non-Fiction Writer
Oceanographer
Professor
Wichita
Kansas
Robert Duane Ballard
Robert D. Ballard
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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
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