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Robert Duane Ballard was born on the 30th June 1942, in Wichita, Kansas USA, and is an underwater archaeologist, professor of oceanography and founder and director of the Institute for Archaeological Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island (URI), also serving in the US armed forces He became known mainly for locating the wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck. Among others awards, he is the winner of American Geological Institute Award, Lindbergh Award, Hubbard Medal from the National Geographic Society.

How much is the net worth of Robert Ballard? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his net worth is as much as $10 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2017, earned during his career in oceanography and archaeology which began in the mid-‘60s.

To begin with, Ballard is the son of Chester Patrick Ballard, who worked at North American Aviation as chief engineer of the Minuteman program, and his wife Harriet Nell. He became interested in the deep sea through books, movies and television films about the underwater world such as about “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and “Jacques Cousteau”. In 1965, Ballard graduated in chemistry and geology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, then from the University of Hawaii he graduated earning a Master of Science (MS) in geophysics in 1966. In 1974, he promoted a mapping work of the seabed of the Gulf of Maine in the geological oceanography department at the University of Rhode Island. Ballard belonged to the expedition team in 1977, which for the first time explored submarine hydrothermal sources, the so-called Black Smokers, near the Galapagos Islands with the research vessel Alvin. These sources have a temperature of about 400 ° C and emit a fountain of black, smoky water. A water sample yielded a pH of 2.8, which corresponds to the acidity of white wine.

Moreover, Ballard is known for locating numerous shipwrecks. On the 1st September 1985, together with Jean-Louis Michel, he found the wreck of the Titanic, which had sunk in 1912. He financed the search by first inspecting in a secret mission on behalf of the US Navy the remains of the sunken US nuclear submarines USS Scorpion and USS Thresher with a dive robot. He also discovered the German battleship Bismarck and the US American carrier USS Yorktown from the World War II. At the end of the 1980s Ballard found a Phoenician ship from the 7th century BC, one of the oldest wrecks ever found. In 1995, he dived again with the US Navy deep-diving boat NR-1 in the Mediterranean after wrecks on a trade route between Carthage and Rome. From 1999 until the end of 2000, Ballard and his team carried out a series of expeditions along the Turkish coast of the Black Sea, looking for remains of artefacts to prove the fact that the previous, inland coast of the Black Sea had already been populated by humans. In the west of Sinope, three old shipwrecks were discovered at a depth of 100 m. Wreck A and Wrck C were estimated to be from the late Roman Empire (2nd to 4th century AD), while Wreck B was attributed to the Late Byzantine Empire (5th to 7th century AD). At the end of 2000, Ballard found traces of an ancient settlement on the coastal shelf of the Black Sea.

Finally, in the personal life of Ballard, he was married to Marjorie Constance Jacobsen; they had two children before divorcing in 1990. At the beginning of 1991, he married the documentary producer Barbara Hanford Earle; they also have two children.

IMDB Wikipedia $10 million 1942 1996 Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award (1990) American Geological Institute Award Authors Avalon: Beyond the Abyss (1999) Ballard its Lone Sailor Award (U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation Barbra Ballard Barbra Ballard (m. 1991) Ben Ballard Bob Ballard Caird Medal (2002) Chet Ballard Doug Ballard Dr Robert Ballard Dr. Robert B. Ballard Dr. Robert D. Ballard Dr. Robert Duane Ballard Dr. Robert R. Ballard Emily Ballard Film director Film producer Finding the Titanic (1993) Ghost Liners: Exploring the World’s Greatest Lost Ships (1998) Harriet Nell Ballard Hubbard Medal (National Geographic Society June 30 Kansas Kilby International Awards (1994) Lindbergh Award Lost Ships of the Mediterranean (1997) Marjorie Jacobsen (m. 1966–1990) National Humanities Medal (2003) Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack (2001) Professor Robert Ballard Robert Ballard Net Worth Robert D. Ballard Robert Duane Ballard Santa Barbara SeaQuest 2032 (1993-1994) Television Producer Terry Ballard The discovery of the Titanic (1987) The Living Sea (TV movie 1995) The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal (1993) The Lost Ships of Robert Ballard (2005) Titanic: 90 Years Below (2002) Titanic: Death of a Dream (1994) Todd Ballard United States United States of America University of California University of Hawaii’s Institute of Geophysics University of Rhode Island University of Rhode Island (1974) US Army’s ROTC program Wichita

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Robert Duane Ballard Quotes

• Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. [Expressing his hope that the Titanic would not be disturbed]
• The Titanic will protect itself. [on discovering that the ship’s bow is too damaged and too deeply buried in the ocean bottom to be plundered by treasure hunters]
• It is a quiet and peaceful place-and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. [on descending to the wreck of the RMS Titanic 73 years after it sank with more than 1,500 passengers on board, quoted in the NY Times, 10 September 1985]

Robert Duane Ballard Important Facts

• Works with National Geographic and Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut.
• Is a big Red Sox fan.
• Has two children from first marriage, Todd (deceased) and Doug (married with one child). Has two children from present marriage, Ben (b. 1994) and Emily (b. 1998)
• Received an MS from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
• He has explored many under water shipwrecks including the Britannic (Titanic’s sister ship), Isis (an ancient Greek ship), and the ocean liner Lusitania.
• He is a former student and employee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
• The name of the submarine that he uses on many under water adventures is “Alvin.”
• Most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, sunk 1912; the DKM Bismarck in 1989, sunk 1941; the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998, sunk 1941; and John F. Kennedy’s PT-109 in 2002, sunk 1943.

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