Robert Ballard on finding the Titanic and other deep-sea discoveries
Finding the wreck of the Titanic would be a career-defining achievement for most people; for oceanographer Bob Ballard, it's just one chapter in a life full of deep-sea exploration
Finding the wreck of the Titanic would be a career-defining achievement for most people. For oceanographer Robert Ballard, it's just one chapter in a life packed full of extraordinary marine exploration.
Bob located the world-famous shipwreck in 1985, but even before that, he’d helped prove the existence of hydrothermal vents: underwater formations surrounded by ecosystems flourishing in the ocean’s depths - without sunlight; a discoveyr that revolutionised our understanding of where and how life can flourish...
Over a career spanning six decades, Bob has pioneered revolutionary technologies, discovered some of history's most famous shipwrecks and inspired new generations of explorers. What's more, as he tells Professor Jim Al-Khalili, he's still exploring mysteries of the deep today...
Presented by Jim Al-Khalili
Produced by Lucy Taylor
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