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First voyages around the world 3200BC.

Traveled around the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea.

An entire ship was buried in the pyramids of Khufu.

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Travels dated from 2000BC - 500BC

created with discovering and settling almost habitable island in the pacific.

Extremely buoyant, bound with fiber rope, and sealed with tree sap.

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Archeological discover of spears, simple fishing equipment and related artifacts lead to this conclusion

Ancient people took the Seas about 5000 BC to travel too different countries

The Seas was a food source providing fish and other aquatic life.

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earliest ship found has been dated to around 1200BC.

First Europeans to establish trade routes through the Mediterranean Sea.

Large ships with storage for crew and goods.

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Started sailing around 500BC

They are known for highly accurate map making skills and developed the first system of latitude and longitude lines.

War ships needed over 170 people to row.

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Used a compass to sail East, he reaches the Canary Islands

The Portuguese dominated early European exploration

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Columbus made 4 major voyages

Other Historians believe he made it as far as the Caribbean Islands and had him thinking he was somewhere in Asia

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Vespucci discovered South America

Sailed on behalf of both Spain and Portugal, explored much of the Amazon River

Amerigo named South American after finding it out on a map in 1507

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In 1535, Italian inventor Guglielmo de Lorena built the first modern diving bell

It has records as far back to the 4th century BC exist

The diving bell works by the balance of the pressure of air inside the bell with the pressure of the water outside the bell, you could stay inside until the oxygen runs out.

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Queen Elizabeth i of England sent out the ships that were led by Sir Francis Drake to be traveled around the globe, also to conquer Spanish settlements

He feared returning back the same way, so they continued to sail west through Indonesia

Sir Drake returned back to England in 1580

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The director of the United States Navel Depot of charts and their measurements

1855 he published many scientific writings. The physical Geography of the sea.

Commander Matthew Fountaine Maury was nicknamed the "Father of Physical Oceanography"

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He made a attempt to reach the North Pole

His ship had gotten stuck in ice from three years

Him and his colleague Fredrick Joansen, their journey wasn't worthless, they collected valuable data about artic sea ice and water chemistry

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(1925) German survey vessel

Crosses the Atlantic Ocean 14 times in 2 years collecting data.

Used 67,400 echo soundings and early forms of sonar equipment to provide a detail necessary to create a map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor.

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The first research vessel dispatched in 1931

Helped Germans to map the 60,000-mile-long Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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The United Kingdom launched the HMS challenger in 1932.

In 1951 challenger ll crew measured the deepest known point on earth in the marina trench.

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From 1951 onward, the study of ocean became a collaborative effort around the world.

The Glamor challenger was the first ship capable of drilling into the ocean floor

In 1970, the United Nations and the U.S. national science foundation declared an international decade of ocean exploration.

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The Bathyscaphe has propellers for self-propulsion

Suspended a bathyscaphe below a large float which allowed it to rise and sink on its own

The Trieste dove 36,000 feet down in the Mariana researchers lt. Don Walsh and Jacques Picarrd onboard (1960)

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1975 marked the start of the international program of ocean drilling project.

Joint

Oceanographic intuitions

Deep

Earth

Sampling

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During 1980 he led an expedition in the North Atlantic Ocean to find the famous wreckage of the RMS Titanic.

It was found in 1985 with the use of DVS Alvin and ROV's

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In 1987, National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration created the first underwater habitat off the coast of St. Croix.

In 1992 researchers moved the base to Florida where it still exists today.