A future Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship with the U.S. Navy will be named after University of Rhode Island Professor Robert Ballard. The ship will be named USNS Robert Ballard (T-AGS 67), according to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro.
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An interview with Christopher Drew on the Bob Ballard memoir, “Into the Deep,” which he co-wrote.
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Legendary ocean explorer Robert Ballard has released “Into the Deep: A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic.” The book shares inside stories of danger, suspense and discovery—plus previously untold stories about Ballard’s dyslexia and how it has shaped his life. Twice a New York Times best-selling author, for his memoir, Ballard partnered with investigative reporter and bestselling author Christopher Drew to tell
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In May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. On June 1, 1937, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, left Miami, Florida, on a mission to accomplish an around-the-world flight on a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra. The plane vanished after a stop in Lae, New Guinea, on June 29, 1937, just 7,000 mi. short
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB—General animal characteristics of the Santa Barbara Basin deep sea animal communities have been described in previous studies. But thanks to state-of-the-art underwater exploration technology in the form of the ROV Hercules, UC Santa Barbara paleoceanographers Dorothy Pak and James Kennett, geophysicist Craig Nicholson and colleagues at the University of Washington, including lead author Sarah Myrhe, recently got
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