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Programming Note — URI On ‘60 Minutes’
10:52AM ON
11/29/2009
BY
Beth Comery
Finally Rhode Island is getting some national exposure for something really awesome. Tonight on 60 Minutes Lara Logan interviews Dr. Bob Ballard of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography. She joined a recent expedition last September when his crew discovered a new site, a 1400-year-old Byzantine wreck on the floor of the Black Sea. According to URI’s GSO website,
The news program is reporting on efforts to explore the oceans by focusing on Ballard’s work and the operation of the Inner Space Center, which connects researchers and ships at sea with URI and shore-based scientists.
This stuff is so cool. (For preview of 60 Minutes segment go here.)
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:41PM
Annie Messier Says:
We watched this and it was super cool! Exciting stuff between the wrecks and the unexpected marine life so far below like those crazy tube worms. The only sadness was just one brief mention of Rhode Island (they didn’t even say URI, just RI). Ah well.
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