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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
imageTube 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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