American - Scientist | June 30, 1942 -
The Titanic will protect itself.
Robert Ballard
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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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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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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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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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Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
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Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
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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.
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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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I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.
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