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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

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
Explorers
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Hunters
Treasure
Explorer
Underwater

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I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.
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The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
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I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.
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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.
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It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
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The greatest discoveries all start with the question Why?
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It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
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The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
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Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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I prefer sayings over jokes.
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Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
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If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
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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.
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Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
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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.
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I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
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Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.
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