Bob Ballard: Last News

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Bob Ballard, who discovered the doomed ship at the bottom of Atlantic Ocean the in 1985, said he offered to help find the plane when it disappeared seven years ago.The passenger flight vanished on March 8, 2014, during a flight from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to China's capital Beijing.But he claims his moves to support the search were dismissed by the authorities leading the investigation."I was first on the phone call to Australia, who was really controlling the shots there," he told National Geographic."Even if they didn’t use my assets (in the search), I know how to find things, maybe I could help walk through the logic of it all, but they said they didn’t need me."I’m still game (to look for the plane).

«catastrophic implosion,» there was enthusiasm around the world after the ocean explorer provided the first photos and footage of the Titanic’s underwater grave. Speaking with ET in 1987, the Navy vet summed up his initial reaction to finding the Titanic in one word: «Relief.»«I had been pursuing that ship for 13 years,» he explained. «It was like this big piece of pressure came off my back and I was glad.»After uncovering the ship via cameras that combed the ocean floor, Ballard and his team of researchers performed multiple five-hour roundtrip dives to the Titanic the following year. «It was a pretty tough commute,» he remembered, saying that their vessel was «a very cold, cramped elevator» surrounded by 6,000 pounds of pressure that amounted to «a Cadillac car on every square inch of you.»Of course, those dangerous voyages yielded the world’s first look at the Titanic since it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and 1,500 people died when it sank within hours early the next morning. «It's a very peaceful site, actually.