Robert Ballard, an ocean explorer for whom discovering the wreck ... Here’s this kid from Kansas who reads 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and wants to be Captain Nemo. My dad took me down to ...

Marine geologist Robert Ballard (b. 1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the Galápagos Islands ...