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  <name><![CDATA[Robert D. Ballard]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas) is a former commander in the United States Navy and an oceanographer who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology. He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. Most recently he discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2003 and visited the Solomon Islander natives who saved its crew. Ballard is also great-grandson of American Old West lawman Bat Masterson.

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see also
http://literati.net/Ballard/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/explorers/robert-ballard.html
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  <title><![CDATA[The Discovery of the Titanic]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Exploring the Titanic: Scott Foresman Reading Classroom Library (Time Quest Book)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lost Liners: From the Titanic to the Andrea Doria The Ocean Floor Reveals Its Greatest Ships]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Titanic: The Last Great Images]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Exploring the Lusitania: Probing the Mysteries of the Sinking That Changed History]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships (64pp)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Explorations: A Life of Underwater Adventure]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Discovery of the Bismarck: Germany's Greatest Battleship Surrenders Her Secrets]]></title>
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