Robert Ballard is among the most famous oceanographers in the world. He is best-known for having discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, but that find was no one-hit wonder: he also discovered the wrecks of the Bismarck, the Lusitania and the USS Yorktown. His most recent discovery was John F. Kennedy’s wartime craft PT-109. Most of these wrecks have been found lying in deep water. The former US Navy commander is Professor of Oceanography at Rhode Island University and director of its Institute for Archaeological Oceanography.

Using very specialised underwater technology – most of which he has developed – Ballard, along with his team of scientists, has conducted more than 120 undersea expeditions over 20 years. These expeditions have inspired Archaeological Oceanography, which describes, in considerable detail, the techniques utilised in the emerging field of deep-sea archaeology and, more specifically, some of those used by Ballard himself. [...]

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