Robert Ballard, 2023
Robert Ballard, 2023

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Robert Ballard

American oceanographer who, with France’s Jean-Louis Michel, found the wreck of the Titanic on the Atlantic floor in 1985

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    On 1 September 1985 an expedition led by America’s Robert Ballard and France’s Jean-Louis Michel found the wreck of the Titanic 3,800 m down on the Atlantic floor.

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  • The Titanic1911 – 1985

    From the launch of the “unsinkable” ship to her maiden voyage, the iceberg, Carpathia’s rescue, the convention that changed the rules of the sea, and the wreck found on the Atlantic floor more than seventy years later