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Robert Ballard Quotes: There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.
         

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.


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