Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

It's often the case that we find what we're looking for when we're looking for something

else.

Search for our missing keys might unearth the pair of glasses we thought we had lost forever,

or a child's hunt for his favorite toy could lead to the rediscovery of a toy he'd

previously abandoned.

In those situations, the original search leads to serendipity, but a popular artist on

television would have described as a happy accident.

In 1985, though, one man set out to find more than his keys.

He was looking for something that had gone missing decades earlier.

His plan was to find the proverbial needle in a haystack, but in this case, the haystack

was the entire ocean.

Born in 1942, Robert had been fascinated by the sea from a young age.

He grew up in San Diego, California before earning a bachelor's degree in geology and

chemistry from UC Santa Barbara, followed by a graduate degree in geophysics from the

University of Hawaii in 1966.

Robert was also a member of the Army's Reserve Officers Training Program, ROTC, and was

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