Robert Ballard Quotes

You don’t go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don’t take belt buckles off the Arizona.

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that’s a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We’re talking about the floods of our living history.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend – my best friend.

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.