Alien Deep With Bob Ballard

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News Alien Deep With Bob Ballard: Student Tasks

Follow Video High Flying Monkeys Colobus monkeys perform aerial acrobatics to escape attack from Gombe chimps.

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News Alien Deep With Bob Ballard: Teacher Notes

Follow Video Tandem Sub Dive Dr. Bob Ballard is diving to extreme depths to explore a volcano; this time he is not alone.

News Alien Deep With Bob Ballard Factsheet: Fires of Creation

Loihi is a submerged volcano 975 metres beneath the sea. Its hardening magma is creating what will one day be a new island in the Hawaiian isle.

Follow Video More Dangerous than Space Join Dr. Bob Ballard as he prepares two deep sea subs to enter an undersea volcano.

News Alien Deep With Bob Ballard Factsheet: Inner Space vs. Outer Space

Is humankind’s future a colony on Mars (outer space) or a colony on the ocean (inner space)?

News Alien Deep With Bob Ballard Factsheet: It's Alive

Dr. Ballard believes that all life possibly began deep in the ocean, where “chimneys” in water are superheated by magma, and diverse chemicals mix together.

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Dr Robert Ballard is the greatest underwater explorer of his generation. But he reckons the tough job of shining a light into the abyss has only just begun. The oceans cover 71 percent of the planet – a mere 5 percent of which has been explored. In that 5 percent, Ballard has found the Titanic, the Bismarck, the carrier Yorktown and entirely new forms of life. Just think of what’s waiting for us in the remaining 95 percent!

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