Q&A with Bob Ballard at Titanic Belfast 

Amazed this was recorded and I just found it 6 yrs later of my daughter Olivia asking the first question. Uber proud mummy. She’s 12 now and she can’t believe she did it 😊 incredible man! Brilliant event and experience 💙

My husband and I were there that night- dr Ballard showed himself to knowledgeable, passionate about his subject matter, funny and extremely engaging! One of the best evenings we've had and that is some endorsement from my poor hubby who I drag all over the world for history battlefields and lectures!

I just watched one of the greatest explorers of our time calmly, and nicely explain how rust works to a little kid. My heart 😭

I could listen to this man talk forever...

This man is an absolute legend, an incredible oceanographer with amazing talent!!

he is in another level , deepest respect bob

Memorable night indeed.My Father was an Aberdonian and he was just soooo happy like we were for him although we all stayed in Glasgow and the fact we were Rangers supporters,but we were all behind our fathers team and celebrated with such joy. Fantastic Team and not forgetting they were the best team in Europe after beating FC Hamburg for the Super Cup🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Believe it or not ,I have heard of Dr Robert Ballard from the movie "bridge to Terabithia " in a scene when the teacher at the class asked the students to watch a program(it talks about Dr Robert Ballard and his discoveries under the sea) on channel 4 and write an assignment on what they've learned from the program .

awesome, would love to meet this man and listen to him speak

This man is my hero

I'm located within miles of his headquarters in rhode island! What a class act...

I like how he totally ignored the Switch theory question 😆 barely talked about

Is and will always be my greatest inspiring ocean explorer!

Bloody hell didn’t know that ismay was buried where my family are from

Hey Boss,, sorry to wake you, but you may want to see this. We came across some boiler ends that fit with Titanic’s. Be so cool to see Amelia’s Lockheed again.

It's "easy" to check witch ship is in the bottom of the Atlantic, Titanic had 3 blade propeller on the turbine axel and Olympic had 4 blade, end of discussion. But they really searched a good spot to sink that ship, make it harder to investigate.

What was the name of the castle Ismay died in? I can’t make out what Ballard is saying?

what was the 2nd question?

Interesting.

I just saw an offspring of Bruce Ismay being interviewed about the Titanic. It took place about 8 years ago (2015?). He was maybe in his 70's+. He was rather arrogant in that he kept making references about how there was/is so much misinformation about the ship. I don't respect him at all. How about the lack of life boats for starters! The "mis-design" of air-tight compartments...none were airtight because they didn't have a roof! Hello! How about the treatment of the third class! This Ismay guy refers toTitanic's demise as an "act of God". Yikes. Totally delusional.

He's still obsessing on cleaning and painting the damn sunkin ship.

NO! Bruce Ismay could HAVE done something! He could have ran around as fast as possible to find others, ANY OTHERS, to tell them the last life boat was being lowered. He could of yelled, “FOLLOW ME, LAST LIFE BOAT IS BEING LOWERED!” and with that help to fill the boat he took. Yes, he could have done something besides save himself. So no, he’s not innocent of being a coward. And as such should be branded as one!

He couldn't remember his daughter's date of birth and had to ask her?

To this day, the Titanic’s swimming pool is still holding water. Has that been reported in the Guinness World Book

Icebergs can’t melt steel beams 😂😂

Dr Ballard sounds and looks so weird to me when he has been asked for his thoughts about the durable switching conspiracy. Loosing his temper, he talks about Cpt. Smith's responsibilities then he moves immediately on a another subject as lifeboats and so on but not answering the simple question. How is it possible that he hasn't done a video to avoid this kind of question or having already an answer and high definition pictures to prove that it is stupid to think, no matter how, it could be the RMS Olympic at the bottom of the Ocean. With hundreds hours of video (with Cameron's and Nargeolet's videos) that would be easy. What do you think?

rms titanic olympic is britannic ss normandic ss imperator rms magestic baltic oceanic : is rms mauretania lusitania carpatha queen may queen mary 2 i from brazil

Very sad ending for titanic but still stayed afloat to safe her passengets ,but decision to drop the lifeboats was delayed n cost the extra lost of lifes😪👇

Easy to forget he was actually asleep when the wreck was discovered... zzzzzzzzzzz

Bob sure deflected the ship switch question with a bunch of iceberg warning nonsense. For a pioneer, he sure is a shill.

I hate how he rambles...

I believe Olympic Is titanic if not they wouldn't got the money plus the Olympic is grey undercoat the Titanic wasn't plus the m and p on the back of the ship