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Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is noted for ocean exploration and underwater archaeology; discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic, the battleship Bismarck, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, and John F. Kennedy's PT-109
 
Born: 1942 (age 82 years), Wichita, KS
Education: University of Rhode Island (1974), MORE
Organization founded: JASON Project

Robert Ballard

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