Talk:Robert Ballard
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[edit] Battleship Bismark
It should be mentioned here that Robert Ballard also discovered the German battleship Bismarck.
[edit] Open Letter to Ballard
An interesting read: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/item/4792/
[edit] Cite all sources please!
I love Wikipedia, but sometimes it is hard to trust articles because they are not cited correctly. A large portion of this article seems to have been lifted from another website without proper citation. Here’s a link to that site:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bal0bio-1
Part of this article’s cleanup should include fixing the errors in citation.
[edit] Too Much Credit
Ballard wasn't part of the team that recently discovered the hull had broken into 3, not 2 pieces.
Quoted from the CNN article, "Explorer Robert Ballard found the bulk of the wreck in 1985, at a depth of 13,000 feet and about 380 miles southeast of Newfoundland. Ballard was not impressed with the expedition's find.
"They found a fragment, big deal," Ballard said. "Am I surprised? No. When you go down there, there's stuff all over the place. It hit an iceberg and it sank. Get over it."
I'm removing it unless someone else can prove otherwise
- No, to be truthful the hull of the Titanic broke into dozens of pieces. But only two main pieces. This 3 pieces story has the whiff of sensationalism to it. Brian Schlosser42 13:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
- I look forward to the documentary, so far I haven't found an explanation on why these pieces could not have come off when the ship broke apart. MechBrowman 14:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
- Oh, I am sure that they did berak off during the sinking, but this idea that the ship broke into three big pieces, and not two magor sections (and in only 5 minutes? that is silly, but I've seen that number in two news reports) is wrong on the face of it. the ship broke in between the third and fourth stacks, through the aft 1st class stair and the reciprocating engine room hatch. The bow segment ends at the third funnel casing, and the stern ends at the reciprocating engine room. No more than a 10th of the lenght of the ship is missing there. Brian Schlosser42 02:51, 8 December 2005 (UTC
- I look forward to the documentary, so far I haven't found an explanation on why these pieces could not have come off when the ship broke apart. MechBrowman 14:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Editing
I have done some significant editing to this article, adding wikilinks and rephrasing some poorly written statements. I added one "citation needed" template, but the article is loaded with unsourced statements. I'm unable to research sources and rewrite the article, but hopefully the next editor who comes along will be able to make more fundamental changes. Laura1822 18:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Other?
Presumably this is not the Robert Ballard who wrote lute music in the 16th century? Or the publisher? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.2.40.144 (talk) 14:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC).
