Until a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth's surface with an average depth of more than two miles--yet ...

Robert Ballard, an ocean explorer for whom discovering the wreck of the Titanic was only one of many highlights over a 45-year career with National Geographic. We caught up with him to hear more ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - At Bollinger Shipyards, the oceanographer who discovered the Titanic shipwreck got a look at the ship that bears his name, the USNS Robert Ballard. The nearly 5,000-ton ...

Yesterday, at the U.S. Naval Academy, two ships were named after explorers USN Capt. Don Walsh and retired USN Cmdr. Victor ...

Marine geologist Robert Ballard (b. 1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the Galápagos Islands ...

Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the team led by famed explorer Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the wreck as a result of a mission to find, map, photograph and explore the lost ships of ...