Explorer Robert Ballard's memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in the ocean's darkest reaches

  • Written by: Suzanne OConnell, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University
Explorer Robert Ballard's memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in the ocean's darkest reachesTube worms, anemones and mussels clustered near a hydrothermal vent on the Galapagos Rift.NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Galapagos Rift Expedition 2011/Flickr, CC BY

Who doesn’t love a good story, especially one about amazing discoveries in Earth’s farthest reaches? Oceanographer, Navy veteran and explorer Robert D. Ballard has written...

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