Robert Ballard
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Nov 6, 2026
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He spends years fighting international legal battles to explore the ship.
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In the 1990s, he teams up with Robert Ballard, the legendary oceanographer who famously discovered the wreck of the Titanic.
speaker_3HOST
Robert Ballard brings unparalleled expertise in deep-sea submersible technology to the site.
speaker_3HOST
They descend to the wreck, expecting to find a relatively undisturbed, albeit degraded, 1915 archaeological site.
speaker_4HOST
But that is not what they found.
speaker_4HOST
A ship fires a barrage of these heavy explosives ahead of it, and they sink rapidly, only detonating when they make physical contact with a hard surface, like a submarine hull.
speaker_3HOST
A very specific weapon.
speaker_4HOST
Robert Ballard found these 1940s and 1950s weapons littered across a 1915 shipwreck.
Gabrielle MarquezHOST
And I'm curious if you guys have any personal interests.
Gabrielle MarquezHOST
I was a fan of, I don't know if you guys know this oceanographer, Robert Ballard, but he's the man who discovered the Titanic.
Gabrielle MarquezHOST
And I'm going to missing airplanes in the ocean.
Gabrielle MarquezHOST
Different creatures we probably haven't discovered.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
In 1985, my guest today found perhaps the most famous shipwreck in history.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
More than 70 years after the Titanic slipped beneath the waves, oceanographer Robert Ballard located her resting place about two miles down in the depths of the North Atlantic.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
His discovery made headlines around the world.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
But ask Robert himself about his greatest find and he'll point you somewhere else entirely, to something that might not have generated quite the same media storm, but had a huge scientific impact.
28 MINS LATER
Robert BallardGUEST
Life is a series of circles within circles within circles.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
Yeah.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
So I hear this Navy ship, the USNS Robert Ballard, is now ready.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
Do you think they're going to let you take it out for a spin?
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
In 1985, my guest today found perhaps the most famous shipwreck in history.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
More than 70 years after the Titanic slipped beneath the waves, oceanographer Robert Ballard located her resting place about two miles down in the depths of the North Atlantic.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
His discovery made headlines around the world.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
But ask Robert himself about his greatest find and he'll point you somewhere else entirely, to something that might not have generated quite the same media storm, but had a huge scientific impact.
26 MINS LATER
Robert BallardGUEST
Life is a series of circles within circles within circles.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
Yeah.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
So I hear this Navy ship, the USNS Robert Ballard, is now ready.
Jim Al-KhaliliHOST
Do you think they're going to let you take it out for a spin?
Ric GillespieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nothing there.
Ric GillespieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Then in 2019, National Geographic decided they would sponsor Bob Ballard, the guy who found the Titanic.
FabHOST
Bob Ballard is.
FabHOST
Not only did you find the Titanic, you also found Bismarck, the battleship Bismarck.
FabHOST
And if you're like me, if you're a Sequest fan, you know the TV show from the 90s, you might remember Bob Ballard because Sequest would always end on this credit screen where, you know, there was this guy in a Sequest hat and said, Hi, I'm Bob Ballard from the Woodsall Oceanographic Institute.
FabHOST
And then he would tell you something you know, scientific about what just happened on the sci-fi show.
Bob BallardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hello, I'm Bob Ballard from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Bob BallardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In 1963, the U.S. submarine Thresher was lost in 8,500 feet of water with all hands aboard.
GarrettHOST
hasn't nobody ever been to this island
Westen ChamplinHOST
No, Rob Ballard.
Westen ChamplinHOST
Bob Ballard? Whatever, his last name's Ballard.
Westen ChamplinHOST
He is a really, really good finder of things.
Jason Roy GastonHOST
I liked it when Dr.
Jason Roy GastonHOST
Bob Ballard would give facts at the end.
Jason Roy GastonHOST
I did, too.
Jason Roy GastonHOST
I love Dr. Ballard.
Hurley ManiaHOST
I'm not here to talk about the best of those games, no, or even the middle tiers.
Hurley ManiaHOST
Now, think of me as your Jacques Cousteau, your Dr. Robert Ballard, and join me, if you will, in my wonderful Ocean Gate sub.
Hurley ManiaHOST
Please hand me the PlayStation controller.
Hurley ManiaHOST
Surely it will survive.
Hurley ManiaHOST
Jake, I've...
Hurley ManiaHOST
I've rarely been more excited for anything in my entire life because I don't know what the order of the list is.
Jake FennerGUEST
It's very apt that we are entering the month of November and you made a reference to Robert Ballard and going under the sea because much like the Edmund Fitzgerald, this list is a shipwreck.
Jake FennerGUEST
This list is nothing but... like, true depravity, right? Like, we all know that Duke-Yukon's a great game, that Arizona-St.
Bojan RadulovicGUEST
about what's happening in the ocean.
Bojan RadulovicGUEST
And what even Bob Ballard, great Bob Ballard, I mean, I never met that gentleman and I wish, but he said this is like the largest museum combined, you know, like what we can find down and we won't, maybe in our life we will not find out really what happening under but for example uh the the submersible that i rent and i went to execute this project it's located in holland and they are very adventurous so they are producing the platform that you can go up to two or three hundred meters for 120 people 80 people and do the corporate event you know it's uh you can rent as a wedding or team building or whatever you want.
Bojan RadulovicGUEST
But we don't know what's happening under.
Bojan RadulovicGUEST
And also I would love to make clear, I'm not the first person who tastes wine under the water.
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