gaillardia Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 This is for anyone interested in deepsea archaeology, shipwrecks, marine geology, underwater exploration, etc. Robert Ballard is a professor at a the U of Rhode Island, I believe... He and his big crew have an awesome website about their adventures: www.nautiluslive.org There was an interview with him broadcast on NPR today. Very cool. I think he was somewhere in the Dallas Fort Worth area today for a public show/presentation but I couldn't find any information on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Thanks! We just watched a set of videos Ballard did on the oceans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Thanks. My younger is watching the video on the website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Yay! I would love to but we have limited internet usage and videos blow the roof off. I am so glad you both are interested. Dana, I will try to find the videos you mentioned. Would you mind telling me where you got the videos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 It was a National Geographic series: Alien Deep. Our library had it :) I found it by doing a search for items with Ballard & it came up (as did a fiction book Ballard did with someone else in 92: Bright Shark. Probably not a great book for kids, but my son grabbed it & we've had some interesting discussions as a result. "What's 'herpes'?" "Is 'sonuvabitch' a racist term?" (I really should preread.) The first video was the best. Later ones got on my nerves some (one was set up as an either/or argument on space exploration vs ocean exploration, ignoring that we should be doing both). Unfortunately that episode made me like Ballard a bit less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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