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.

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.

There’s a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.