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Robert Ballard

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American oceanographer, born 1942, then at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who co-led the 1985 search that found the Titanic and returned in 1986 with the submersible Alvin and the tethered robot Jason Junior for the first human visits to the wreck. His insight was to hunt the debris trail rather than the hull. He has argued consistently for the site to be treated as a grave and left unsalvaged, and later located the Bismarck, the Yorktown and other historic wrecks.

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  1. Story
  2. American oceanographer, born 1942, then at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who co-led the 1985 search that found the Titanic and returned in 1986 with the submersible Alvin and the tethered robot Jason Junior for the first human visits to the wreck. His insight was to hunt the debris trail rather than the hull. He has argued consistently for the site to be treated as a grave and left unsalvaged, and later located the Bismarck, the Yorktown and other historic wrecks.
  3. Knowledge
  4. 1985 Franco-American Titanic search
  5. Robert Ballard
  6. Connections
  7. 1985 Franco-American Titanic search
  8. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
  9. First human visits to the wreck
  10. Titanic wreck site
  11. Robert Ballard
  12. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
  13. Evidence
  14. The wreck was located on 1 September 1985 by the towed imaging sled Argo; the hull lay in two major sections roughly 600 m apart with an intervening debris field, at approximately 3,800 m depth.
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