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Oceanographer Robert Ballard best known for discovering the Titanic wreck has new plans to plumb the depths of the seas Ballard said on July 28 2011 that his latest deepsea venture will send crews combing through the Black Aegean and Mediterranean seas for artifacts from ship wrecks and ancient civilizations His research vessel the EV Nautilus set out from a port in Turkey last week on a fourmonth mission that will use four remoteoperated vehicles and sonar technology to explore lost cities as well as hydrothermal vents and undersea volcanoes