Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.order tickets
Robert Ballard Underwater Explorer Photograph by Ira Block
One of the greatest explorers in history, Robert Ballard
is a pioneer of deep-sea archaeology and a former
commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Over the past
40 years he and his teams have discovered some of
the most notable shipwrecks of our time, including the
German battleship Bismarck and the U.S.S. Yorktown
from World War II, John F. Kennedy’s PT-109, and the
most storied civilian shipwreck, R.M.S. Titanic—about
which he will be sharing some recently declassified
information surrounding the expedition.
Most recently, Ballard has been exploring the Black Sea, where wooden vessels more
than a millennium old lie nearly intact, offering to shed new light on ancient civilizations. Ballard
suspects he may eventually find preserved human remains in the wreckage, supporting
his assertion that the world’s largest museum is in the depths of our planet’s oceans.
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Mesa Arts Center
1 East Main Street
Mesa, AZ 85201
+1 480 644 6500
