General Who Am I/Are We

[ralgith]

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That would be Commander U.S.N. (Ret.) Robert Ballard

Most famous shipwreck discovery: RMS Titanic

Other famous shipwrecks he discovered:
..Bismarck
..Lusitania
..USS Yorktown

Submersibles (manned AND unmanned) he helped design:
Argo
Jason Junior
(I don't know any more, but there are more)

He has also written several books.

Sorry LK, you picked one of my favorite people... lol I first got interested in him/his career when I did a report on the Titanic in High School. What most people don't know is he wasn't even supposed to be looking for the Titanic. He was being paid by the Navy to look for 2 subs lost during the 60s. The USS Thresher (SSN-593) [Lead boat in the Thresher class of boats] and the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) [A Skipjack class boat]... 2 early nuclear powered subs. He found both, which had imploded from exceeding their crush depth (or from a fault), by following their debris trails (created by the effects of underwater implosion) right to the wrecks. So, he employed the same technique to find the Titanic. And it worked.