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160
Petolomy BC
Map Maker -
250
Eratosthenes BC
Discovered the circumference of the Earth -
330
Pytheas BC
Circumnavigated Great Britain -
Jan 5, 1418
Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres, Portugal. In this school, people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa. -
Jan 7, 1513
Vasco Nunz de Balboa sights the Pacific Ocean
Vasco sighted the Pacific Ocean for the first recorded time from a top of a mountain -
Jan 3, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan
First Circumnavigation -
James Cook
Circumnavigated New Zealand and charted the north and south islands -
Benjamin Franklin
First Scientist to study in graph wind speeds and current depth,. He also graphed the Gulf stream which helped navigators discover the currents -
Matthew Maury
Matthew F. Maury develops oceanography, J. R. von Mayer (Germany), On the Forces of Inanimate Nature; Crawford Long uses ether on humans -
Challenger Expedition
Challenger returned to Spithead, Hampshire conducting 492 deep sea soundings, 133 bottom dredges, 151 open water trawls, 263 serial water temperature observations, and discovered about 4,700 new species of marine life -
SONAR
American engineers developed their own underwater sound detection technology. After technical information was exchanged between the two countries during the Second World War, Americans began to use the term SONAR for their systems, coined as the equivalent of RADAR -
Bathysphere
William Beebe descends to a depth of 3027 feet off the Bermuda in a tethered bathysphere to observe deep ocean life -
Herodotus BC
He constructed a map of the Mediterranean Sea -
Early Sailings of the Polynesians BC
Circumnavigated Africa in the North Atlantic navigated by watching wave patterns in made maps of shells and sticks -
Vikings discover new lands through new routes
Leif Erickson discovers New Foundland and navigates through icy waterts, discovering limitations of that ocean area
