About Jean-Louis Michel
Born 1945. Jean-Louis Michel is a French engineer, archaeologist and oceanographer.
Jean-Louis Michel (born 1945) is a French oceanographer and engineer.
He discovered subsea intervention in 1969 with the French Navy as an officer at the Groupe des Bathyscaphes headed by Captain Georges Houot. In 1985, Jean-Louis Michel (along with marine geologist Robert Ballard) led a team of French and American explorers who found the wreckage of the .
Robert Ballard mentions in an interview with Forbes magazine that Jean-Louis Michel rarely gets enough credit for co-discovering the Titanic.
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Who is Jean-Louis Michel?
French oceanographer
When was Jean-Louis Michel born?
Jean-Louis Michel was born in 1945.
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Jean-Louis Michel is an engineer, archaeologist and oceanographer.
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Jean-Louis Michel is French.
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· Wikipedia: Jean-Louis Michel
· DBpedia: Jean-Louis Michel (oceanographer)
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