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It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
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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