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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.
  • 500 BCE

    Treasure dives

    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.
  • 900

    Vikings explore

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

    Christopher Columbus

    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.