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re: Dr Robert Ballard is a genuine badass
Posted on 4/2/18 at 11:13 am to nola000
Posted on 4/2/18 at 11:13 am to nola000
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So did they ever dig around in the Lusitania and find all the munitions and other support material the U.S. were sneaking to the Brits despite denials?
Pretty sure the government has already come out & confirmed this
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Posted on 4/2/18 at 11:27 am to StealthCalais11
I used to work for EDS, and we were a corporate sponsor for a program in which Ballard would take time to either come talk to school kids in person, or would be in a sea-lab somewhere, or on a boat - and he would do a Satellite video call with the kids, and talk to them about everything involving the sea.
even fielded questions from the kids - was always polite, patient and generally a pretty cool dude.
even fielded questions from the kids - was always polite, patient and generally a pretty cool dude.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 11:39 am to Thracken13
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I used to work for EDS, and we were a corporate sponsor for a program in which Ballard would take time to either come talk to school kids in person, or would be in a sea-lab somewhere, or on a boat - and he would do a Satellite video call with the kids, and talk to them about everything involving the sea. even fielded questions from the kids - was always polite, patient and generally a pretty cool dude.
As amazing as his professional life was, it did not shield him form life's tragedies, he had a son with substance abuse issues that were a constant battle during his teen years, and then died in a one car crash at age 20.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 11:44 am to Bert Macklin FBI
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actually quite genius.
actually seems quite obvious
Posted on 4/2/18 at 2:25 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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He developed a theory that a ship wreck would leave debris within a radius of the wreck. So instead of looking for the ship, you looked for items that may have been scattered on the decent of the ship to the bottom. Once you find some debris, you map it out and it eventually brings you to the ship wreck.
That book I linked went into some detail about it. They scanned that seafloor long into the night looking for any trace of the ship. First thing they found was one of those huge arse boilers. Few other pieces of smaller debris here and there before they damn near slammed right into the hull of the bow.
In that moment where they found the boiler and wondered what lied ahead--that has to be the most hauntingly beautiful experiences anyone's ever had.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 2:57 pm to 777Tiger
For being quite obvious, no one used this technique before.
Previously, researchers would search for the ship itself and ignore anything smaller that the sonar might pick up.
It was Ballard who figured out that if you investigate the smaller items, you can draw yourself a map to the ship.
Edit: i guess what I am saying is that it sounds obvious now but no one thought of it before him.
Similarly, it seems pretty obvious now that an assembly line can make cars faster than building the cars from start to finish one at a time. It took Henry Ford to figure out the obvious and put it into action.
Previously, researchers would search for the ship itself and ignore anything smaller that the sonar might pick up.
It was Ballard who figured out that if you investigate the smaller items, you can draw yourself a map to the ship.
Edit: i guess what I am saying is that it sounds obvious now but no one thought of it before him.
Similarly, it seems pretty obvious now that an assembly line can make cars faster than building the cars from start to finish one at a time. It took Henry Ford to figure out the obvious and put it into action.
This post was edited on 4/2/18 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 4/2/18 at 2:58 pm to Morty
Nm
Posted on 4/2/18 at 3:39 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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no one used this technique before.
baw, do you even towed array sonar or P-3?
ain't putting the baw down, it's just that if you have enough backing and aren't a complete idiot this isn't a hard conclusion to come to 
Posted on 4/2/18 at 3:42 pm to DavidTheGnome
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This guy has lived an amazing life
Did he die?
Posted on 4/2/18 at 3:44 pm to Count Chocula
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Did he die?
might as well, he found everything
Posted on 4/2/18 at 3:47 pm to 777Tiger
He didn't find the mud boat I sunk in the Boston Canal.... must not be dead yet?
Posted on 4/2/18 at 3:48 pm to Count Chocula
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He didn't find the mud boat I sunk in the Boston Canal.
I found that years ago when I was coming in from duck hunting near there, he didn't want credit for that
Posted on 4/2/18 at 3:50 pm to DavidTheGnome
Make it his life’s goal to locate Malaysia flight 370
Posted on 4/2/18 at 3:52 pm to DavidTheGnome
Ship wreckage on the ocean floor is creepy shite. frick that.
Posted on 4/2/18 at 8:01 pm to TheFonz
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When I was in the 5th grade, I found this book by Robert Ballard in the school library, and it started a life-long fascination of the Titanic for me.
Great book
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