Welcome to Bob's Page.


So: Who's this Bob guy?

Dr. Robert D. Ballard (Bob) is the guy who found and explored the Titanic, the Bismarck, various ships of the aincient world and recently the Lusitania. He is currently the Director of Marine Sciences at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and will soon be using the worlds smallest nuclear submarine to explore the sea bed as part of the annual Jason Project.

Bob was recently in Liverpool to give a presentation and launch his new books: Explorations (RRP £20), his autobiography, and Exploring the Lucitania (RRP £20), which contains lovely pictures of the wreck and an artist's impressions of what the ship looked like when it was on the surface.
This book is very informative and is a great insight into a very important historical event - America was brought into WWII because of it - and it also manages to answer the important question as to who (or which nation) was guilty of the sinking.

I would strongly recomend these (and the others: The Discovery of the Titanic, The Discovery of the Bismarck, and various others, including his Political-Submarining-Action-Thriller-Romance Bright Shark, which is an excellent read) to anyone who likes history, subs, water, really cool little robots and who has watched the Abyss.

You can also join in the fun by participating in the Jason Project, in which Bob's team goes somewhere and relays live reports of scientific exploration via satellite to hundreds of schools and museums in America, as well as three sites in the U.K. at the Liverpool Maritime Museum, and in Southhampton and London. School parties are particully welcome (and teaching resources are available), but anybody can go along and take part. The next Project will be based on "Living Underwater".
Contact the Liverpool Maritime Museum for more details.
(But if you go then avoid the coffee bar in the Tate Gallery on the Albert Dock: despite being highly recommended by the Sandwich Bar Association their sandwiches are terrible.)