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Ocean Exploration

By sswai824
  • 4500 BCE

    First ocean diving

    This is the time when people started to venture into the ocean to get food and sometimes diving in during warfare.
  • Treasure dives
    500 BCE

    Treasure dives

    King Xerxes and 2 other divers would go treasure diving and when Xerxes didn't let the divers go at times they would use knifes and snorkels to cut his feet.
  • Vikings explore
    900

    Vikings explore

    This is when Vikings started to explore many places and colonize them.
  • Christopher Columbus
    1492

    Christopher Columbus

    This is the time when Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue and colonized North and South America
  • The First Submarine

    The First Submarine

    The submarine was built by Cornelis Drebbel, it was made of wood, iron, and leather.
  • Waterproof suit

    Waterproof suit

    The first waterproof suit was made by Sir Pierre Rémy de Beauve. It had 2 hoses that were pumped with air to allow the divers to breathe.
  • The titanic sinks

    The titanic sinks

    The titanic hit an iceberg causing it to sink and over 1,500 passengers lost their lives.
  • Exploration of the sea floor

    Exploration of the sea floor

    Reginald Fessenden used a oscillator to use sound waves between icebergs and seafloor.

  • First Multibeam sounding

    This gives ships an accurate ma of the sea floor by using sounding beams going left to right.

  • Underwater Robot

    The first underwater robot was made to retrieve lost items in the ocean and recovered an H-bomb off Spain.
  • Titanic found

    Titanic found

    They found the titanic using tiny robots and it was discovered 12,500 feet below sea level.
  • First video of the giant squid

    First video of the giant squid

    A Japanese film crew captured the video of the giant squid which was 9 feet long.