Day 9
Things seem to be quieting down, finally.What we're doing now is completing Dr. Ballard's dream to be able to bring students and scientists on board ship, without them leaving the comfort of their schools. The ultimate idea that Dr. Ballard had started in 1981. His dream was to bring expeditions from around the world to a centralized point, so that you could tune in (on television originally, now on the Internet) and see Dr. Ballard present a show that would allow him to, at the flick of a switch, be in complete communications with a research party in one part of the globe, converse with them and then flick another switch and be transported to another research vessel.
Dr. Ballard mentioned in one of these shows that he had been on over 120 expeditions (by the way, this is number four for me). Although his connections in the Navy, the US Government, and the oceangraphic exploratory world is still vast he's hoping to take a step back from being on the expeditions, and still have communications with each expedition and have more than one expedition occuring at the same time. This allows Dr. Ballard to still be the head of some cutting edge technology in archeology and ocean exploration AND bring all of this into the homes of children that may never have been interested in any of this, but can have an avenue to learn how exciting this can be.
posted by DaveandBrian @ 11:12 AM
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