[blam]

Ballard is a bit on the 'showy' side for my taste.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Judging by the thickness of the ash layer ON the island I doubt they'll see much underwater in Thera's crater. I'd expect whatever wasn't atomized by the explosion or blown miles away would have been buried by falling dust later. Core samples of the sea floor might be of interest and might identify targets for whenever underwater excavations at that depth become feasible.

[csvset]

It will be interesting to see what they find.

[atruelady]

Robert Ballard is one of very few true explorers who seeks to educate people especially the kids.

He might seem a bit showy, but you can be sure it is not in the name of vanity.

I follow some of his work especially when it pertains to educating children. He makes things simple for them to understand.

I have the book about the Bismark. Excellent work. I know he did a lot of work for National Geographic which happens to be one of my favorite publications.

[Grut]

Ballard is a bit on the 'showy' side for my taste.

Show biz is an essential part of archaeological funding.

[SunkenCiv]

I like the pretty pictures, although all of the really interesting stuff from all his expeditions could probably fill one two hour special with room to spare.

Trouble with this one is, the caldera was formed at least 23,000 years ago, and probably more like 100K years ago, long before there were any Minoans or towns on Santorini. The ash from the classical period eruption (which was nowhere near 2nd millennium BC) did indeed hit Crete, but only in the eastern end, and the maximum depth is 5 millimeters.

An earlier topic about it:

Explorer Ballard heads exploration of undersea volcano
Narragansett Times | 5/19/2006 | Chris Church
Posted on 05/19/2006 3:42:02 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1635128/posts

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