In 1985, it took Robert Ballard eight days to find the R.M.S. Titanic around 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. For more than 70 years, the location of the liner's wreckage — about ...

Robert Ballard emerges from the submersible Alvin after a 1979 dive to the Galápagos Rift. Ballard’s push for direct visual observation of the deepest reaches of the ocean has led to momentous ...

Robert D. Ballard, best known for discovering the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985 and the battleship Bismarck in 1989, is the president of the Ocean Exploration Trust.

The wreckage of the RMS Titanic was discovered on September 1, 1985, by a team led by Robert Ballard. Stewart Harris, designer of the Argo sled, first spotted a boiler, a key feature of the Titanic.

Funded by CEFCU, the exhibit is developed by Dr. Robert Ballard, the marine biologist and retired Naval officer who discovered the ship's wreckage on an expedition in 1985. The exhibit will put ...

Amid the audience laughter at a lecture, U.S. Navy oceanographer Robert Ballard bit his tongue and told the questioner the jewelry was fictitious. It was simply part of the dramatic story made up ...