November 12, 2011

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Welcome to the first night of a stimulating new season at The Richmond Forum! We’re excited to kick things off with the ever-enthusiastic Dr. Robert Ballard, just returned from the Nautilus with plenty of fresh discoveries to share with us tonight. I predict that you’ll be ready to sign up for his next expedition before the evening is over.

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He’s been called a “modern-day Captain Nemo.” Since the age of 19, Robert Ballard has been diving and exploring the ocean using manned and unmanned submersibles. In over 120 expeditions, he has made some of the most famous deep-sea discoveries ever, including the elusive wreck of the RMS Titanic.

Ballard began his career as a young naval officer working in deep-sea submergence at Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Institute in Massachusetts. In the years that followed, Ballard spent months at a time at sea and countless hours underwater, much of that time in DSV Alvin, a research submersible owned by the U.S. Navy.

Not satisfied with the possibilities of undersea research offered by the slow-moving Alvin, Ballard became a leading expert in the use of undersea Remotely Operated Vehicles, or ROVs. Ballard pioneered robotic technologies that advanced deep-ocean exploration and led to phenomenal natural discoveries worldwide, including deep-sea vents and new life forms and geologic features.

An “equal opportunity explorer,” Ballard applied these new technologies to his search for the Titanic. Ballard used an ROV to discover the wreck in 1985 and returned a year later with Alvin to make the two-and-a-half-hour descent to the ocean floor to view the wreck first-hand. Over the next few days, Ballard and his crew descended again and again, recording eerie scenes of the ruined interior of the luxury liner.

Unlike Nemo, who isolated himself from the world above the sea, Ballard’s passion became using technology to bring the sea to the world, including 1.7 million students each year.

Presently, Ballard’s research vessel, Nautilus

(named after Nemo’s fictional submarine), is on the last leg of a five-month exploration of the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean, in search of antiquities, sites of Neolithic settlements, ancient shipwrecks and spectacular undersea geography. Within days of the expedition’s start, the team was discovering one ancient shipwreck after another and streaming each discovery live at www.nautiluslive.org.

Dr. Ballard earned undergraduate degrees in chemistry and geology at the University of California at Santa Barbara and holds a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics. He retired from the Navy as a commander in 1995 after reaching the statutory service limit.

He has received numerous honors for his discoveries, including the Lindbergh Award, the Explorers Medal and the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society. In 2003, President George W. Bush presented him with the National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony.

Ballard is President of the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Connecticut; Scientist Emeritus at Woods Hole; and Director of the Institute for Archaeological Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.

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When her youngest brother, Ron, died of a brain tumor, Susan decided to leave her corporate life and follow her dream of being a singer-songwriter. She now makes her living as a musician and honors her family’s philanthropic philosophy by sharing her music with many worthy causes around the city.

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Robert Ballard Timeline

June 30, 1942: Robert Duane Ballard is born in Wichita, Kansas.

1965: Graduates from the University of California at Santa Barbara with degrees in chemistry and geology. Following graduation, he serves two years as an intelligence officer in the Army Reserve before requesting a transfer to the Navy.

1967: Assigned to Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Institution in Massachusetts to work in deep submergence.

1973-74: Dives 9,000 feet in DSV Alvin and in a French submersible to explore the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an underwater mountain chain in the Atlantic Ocean.

1974: Becomes a full-time marine scientist upon completing his doctoral degrees in marine geology and geophysics at the University of Rhode Island.

1977: Participates in an expedition that discovers thermal vents in the Galapagos Rift, leading to the discovery of chemosynthesis, the chemical synthesis of food energy. Chemosynthesis has been called one the “100 greatest scientific discoveries of all time” because of its implications for the possibility of life on other planets, as well as new forms of life here on Earth.

1985: Designs a series of remotely operated vessels to advance deep-sea exploration, most notably the Argo, a 16-foot submersible sled equipped with a remote-controlled camera that can transmit live black and white images to a monitor. The Argo is tested during a dive attempting to locate the underwater wreckage of Titanic and is successful in revealing the sunken ocean liner.

1986: Ballard dives on the site of the Titanic in the submersible, Alvin.

1989: After receiving thousands of letters from school children asking how he discovered the Titanic, Ballard founds The JASON Project, an educational program that uses video and audio satellite feeds and the Internet to allow students to follow various expeditions.

Discovers the wreckage of the German battleship, Bismarck, which was heavily damaged by the British during World War II.

1993: Discovers the underwater wreck of the Lusitania, a British passenger liner that was torpedoed by the Germans and sunk off the coast

My hero as a little boy was Captain Nemo. I wanted

to be an undersea explorer.– Robert Ballard

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of Ireland. This barbaric attack prompted the U.S. to enter World War I on the Allied side.

1997: Retires from Woods Hole and founds the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Connecticut, a center for deep-sea archaeology.

1998: Leads a team in a search for lost wrecks from the Battle of Midway. The aircraft carrier Yorktown is discovered.

1999: Begins exploration of the Black Sea, finding proof that a catastrophic f lood inundated the Black Sea in the region north of Turkey. This flood may have occurred around 5500 B.C., corresponding to the time and location of the Old Testament account of Noah.

2000: Discovers the remains of an ancient wooden shipwreck in the Black Sea. The wreck is perfectly preserved, because the Black Sea is devoid of oxygen at great depth. 2002: Discovers the remains of PT 109, the patrol boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy in World War II; the boat sank in the Solomon Islands when a Japanese destroyer sliced through it.

Joins the faculty of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.

2003: President George W. Bush awards Dr. Ballard the National Humanities Medal.

2005: An Institute for Exploration expedition team, led by Dr. Ballard, launches a mission to the hydrothermal vent field of the Lost City, located in the mid-Atlantic Ridge.

2009-10: Leads two expeditions to the Aegean and Black Seas aboard his new research vessel, the E/V Nautilus. Ballard and his crew map the sea floor, study underwater volcanoes, investigate unusual life forms and explore shipwrecks. A satellite dish on the Nautilus transmits live video and other data from the expedition 24/7.

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2010: The U.S. government seeks Ballard’s expertise during its response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the effort to stop the flow of oil 5,000 feet beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

Summer/Fall 2011: The Nautilus and her crew return to the Black Sea, Aegean and Mediterranean, discovering numerous ancient shipwrecks and geological wonders. Tonight, she is exploring off the coast of Israel.

Robert Ballard and his TITANIC team watch video monitors aboard the research vessel KNORR. Photo: Emory Kristof

Unlike other explorers who keep their expeditions top secret, Ballard’s expeditions are streamed live online at www.nautiluslive.org

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Robert Ballard spent much of his early career underwater in a Deep Submergence Vessel (DSV)named Alvin, owned by the U.S. Navy.

It was in Alvin that Ballard and his team discovered the thermal vents off the Galapagos Islands in 1977, and it was in Alvin that he dove on the wreck of the Titanic in 1986.

But from October 1968 to September 1969, Alvin sat lost at the bottom of the ocean. While it was being lowered into the ocean with three crew members aboard and the hatch open, two steel cables snapped; the DSV quickly sank beneath almost a mile of water. The crew

members escaped safely. Nearly a year later, a “Richmonder,” named

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The rescuing Aluminaut, built in 1964 by Richmond-based Reynolds Metals Company, was the world’s first aluminum submarine and was operated from 1964 until 1970 by Reynolds

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The Richmond Forum congratulates Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

On June 30th, Secretary Gates retired after serving four and a half years as Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, a tenure that included two U.S. wars, military involvement in Libya, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. In total, Dr. Gates has served and advised eight presidents in a number of leadership roles, including Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Deputy National Security Adviser. In January, Dr. Gates will share his candid insights with us.

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January 14, 2012

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