Mystic Aquarium

Sea Research Foundation's Institute for Exploration team returns to the Black and Aegean Seas this summer aboard the E/V Nautilus to explore ancient history and learn more about the ocean.

Sea Research Foundation’s Institute for Exploration team had a successful return to the Aegean and Black seas in August 2009, discovering five shipwreck sites around the Datca peninsula, south of Knidos, Turkey, from aboard the new E/V Nautilus.

Dr. Ballard and the rest of the Institute for Exploration expedition team have launched the 2005 mission to the hydrothermal vent field of the Lost City .

In June of 2004, nearly 20 years after first finding the sunken remains of the R.M.S. Titanic, marine explorer Dr. Robert Ballard returned to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study the ship’s rapid deterioration.

In June 2001, IFE's new side-scan sonar (ECHO) was used to locate and acoustically image selected shipwrecks in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve.

In 2000, Dr. Robert Ballard led a search for a Japanese midget submarine, one of several involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

In June 1999, IFE mounted an expedition to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

In 1998, Dr. Robert Ballard led a search for lost wrecks from the Battle of Midway. The aircraft carrier YORKTOWN was discovered.

IFE began the initial phase of its long-term study of the Paleo-Indians of the Ice Age with a preliminary expedition to the continental shelf off Long Island.

In 1997, IFE undertook its Skerki Bank Expedition in the Tyrrhenian Sea.