Birth Name:

Robert Ballard

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Jun 30, 1942

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Wichita, Kansas, United States

Age:

81

Zodiac Sign:

Cancer

Astrology Data:

Sun

8°

Can

15'

About Robert Ballard

Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. He leads ocean exploration on E/V Nautilus. Ballard considers his most important discovery to be that of hydrothermal vents.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Robert Ballard's faculty page at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.

• Institute for Exploration at the Mystic Aquarium.

• NOAA, Ocean Explorer OceanAGE Careers - Video profiles, biographies, and background materials related to Oceanexplorer

• Robert Ballard at TED TED Talk: The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean (TED2008)

• TED Talk: The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean (TED2008)

• National Geographic Photo Gallery: Discovering the Titanic

• University of Rhode Island Inner Space Center

• Bob Ballard, The Great Explorer, Laura Logan's story on 60 Minutes broadcast on November 29, 2009

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Robert Ballard: Sun 8 Cancer, Moon 9 Aquarius, Mercury 18 Gemini, Venus 3 Gemini, Mars 10 Leo, Jupiter 4 Cancer, Saturn 6 Gemini, Uranus 2 Gemini, Neptune 27 Virgo, Pluto 4 Leo, Sun Conjunct Jupiter, Sun Semi Sextile Mars, Sun Semi Sextile Saturn, Mercury Semi Square Pluto, Venus Semi Sextile Jupiter, Venus Conjunct Saturn, Venus Conjunct Uranus, Venus Sextile Pluto, Mars Sextile Saturn, Mars Semi Square Neptune, Mars Conjunct Pluto, Jupiter Semi Sextile Pluto, Saturn Conjunct Uranus, Saturn Sextile Pluto, Uranus Sextile Pluto

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Photo attribution: Erik Charlton from Menlo Park, USA, Robert Ballard