Explorer who found Titanic plans to go to bottom of Mediterranean and Black Seas.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | December 17, 1995| | Copyright

PHILADELPHIA _ Explorer Robert Ballard, famous for finding the Titanic, Bismarck and other sunken ships, says his next expedition will be to the bottom of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, where he believes thousands of ancient Greek and Roman ships lie waiting to reveal secrets of old trade routes.

Ballard has an edge over archaeologists. He recently acquired a nuclear submarine, on loan from the Navy.

At a lecture Thursday night at Philadelphia's Natural Academy of Sciences, Ballard, 53, showed slides of the Titanic and of Roman ships found in shallower parts ...

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