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Challenger Expedition
The Challenger circumnavigates the globe. This is the first huge aceanographic expedition. (the last date is wrong exept the year) -
Gorringe Bank
H.H. Gorringe, discovered an undersea mountain 130 miles west of Portugal. They found it when they were conducting sound tests with a Thompson sound machine. -
Steel rope
(only the year is right) The Coast Survey Steamr Blake is the first ship to use steel rope for oceanographic purposes. -
Titanic
The White Star Liner Titanic sinks when it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. This peaked the intrest to find a devise that could discover objects using echolocation while a ship was moving. -
Acoustic exploration
Reginald Fessenden used a Fessenden Oscillator to reglect a signal off an iceberg and at the same time reflect an acustic signal off the seabottom. This was the beginning of the acoustic exploration of the sea. -
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World War I
(only the years are right) World War I causes aceanic acoustic research to increase. Both the Navy and Army developed a way to find enemy submarines. -
First line of soundings
French scientist succeed in running the first line of sounding obtained from an acoustic echo sounder. -
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Mid-Atlatic ridge continuity
(only the years are right) The German Meteor expedition proves that the Mid-Atlantic ridge does in fact continue North. They used echo-sounding equipment and other oceanographic instruments. -
Manned exploration of the sea
(only the year is right) Edward Beebe was lowered in a tethered bathyscaph to a depth of 3,028 feet. -
untethered sesearch submersibles
The French research submersible F.N.R.S. 3 dives to 13,257 feet. This is the begining of manned untethered research submersibles. -
Thermal vents
(only the year is right) Thermal vents are found along with an ecosystem that does not need energy from the sun. The organisms use chemosynthesis to atain energy. -
Titanic discovered!!!!
Dr. Robert Ballard discovers the Titanic.