Oceanography Timeline

  • 600 BCE

    First Sea Routes

    Phoenicians developed sea routes around the Mediterranean around the Red Sea, they make it to africa and england. (navigation)
  • Steamship

    Robert Fulton was the inventor of the first successful steamship. (trade)
  • Fridtjof Nansen

    Fridtjof Nansen was a norwegian scientist who sailed to the North Pole and gathered information. (scientific research)
  • Titanic

    A huge ship called the Titanic hit into an iceberg and killed over 1,500 people. (navigation)
  • Echo sounder

    Alexander Behm invented the echo sounder, which measures the depth of the sea. (recreation)
  • USS Nautilus

    US scientist created the world's first nuclear submarine. (military)
  • First Underwater Robot

    The Navy developed CURV which is a underwater robot used to find torpedos. (military)
  • NOAA

    NOAA is established in 1970, it is an american agency that reports ocean conditions, major waterways, and the atmosphere. (medical field)
  • Hydrothermal Vents

    A marine geologist, Robert Ballard discovered the first know hydrothermal vent in the Galapagos drift. Warm water was coming out the ocean floor. ( scientific research)
  • Titanic found

    Robert Ballard and robot, Jason, discover the titanic about 375 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada. ( scientific research)