![]() ![]() ![]() Army's ROTC program, which gave him an Army officer's commission in Army Intelligence. While attending college, he completed the U.S. ![]() He earned degrees in chemistry and geology in 1965. During this time he attended the University of California in Santa Barbara. He helped the company work on a proposal to build a three-man deep-sea submersible. In 1962 his father helped him to get a part-time job with the Ocean Systems Group at North American Aviation. Ballard developed an interest in underwater exploration and closely followed expeditions such as those of the bathyscaphe Trieste. Growing up in San Diego, the ocean was always nearby. He developed an early interest in the Sea when he read the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. His family soon moved to San Diego, California. Robert Ballard is an American oceanographer, explorer, geologist, and underwater archaeologist. ![]()
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