Living a Life of Deep Adventure – Bob Ballard, Finder of the Titanic : 839

<p>In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, an incredibly special guest explores the vast depths of the oceans uncovering mysteries, proving theories, and revealing artifacts that tell a story about the history of humankind.&nbsp;</p><p>And I got to talk to him via satellite phone as he was heading out to sea on his ship,&nbsp;<a href="https://nautiluslive.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nautilus</a>.</p><p>Oceanographer and marine geologist&nbsp;<a href="https://nautiluslive.org/people/robert-d-ballard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bob Ballard</a>&nbsp;has led nearly 160 deep-sea expeditions and worked with the Navy on top-secret missions throughout an underwater career spanning six decades. It all began with a love of California’s Mission Bay tide pools.</p><p>“Everyone's born with that flame of curiosity,” Bob says. “Every child is born a scientist, and yet the educational system can turn off that pilot light and kill it. So, I was lucky enough right when my pilot light was getting low, someone put their arm around me and said, "You can do it." Helped me through it. I had people all the way.”</p><p>He’s gone on to discover ships thought long lost and provide extraordinary new understandings and discoveries in marine geology, geophysics, biology, and chemistry.&nbsp;</p><p>He’s discovered new life-forms, traced ancient trade routes, developed robots that roam the ocean floor, and opened an amazing underwater world to kids through telepresence.</p><p>One of his astonishing contributions includes discovering a luxury steamship at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in 1985. That would be the RMS Titanic. It rests off the&nbsp;eastern coast&nbsp;of the Canadian province Newfoundland.</p><p>Now 79, he talks openly of his dyslexia, which he didn’t even know he had until a few years ago. He just thought his brain worked differently than other people’s. “I do not look at it as a disadvantage,” Bob says. “I look at it as an advantage. The rules inside the box were written by non-dyslexics