History of oceanography Austin Massey 6th period

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  • 500

    Pre Historic Man

    Pre Historic Man
    Man and civilization were just begining. Canoes were introduced to assist hunting and fishing.
  • Jan 7, 1513

    Magellan

    Magellan
    In 1513 the Spanish
    captain, Ferdinand
    Magellan, circumnavigated
    the globe through a passage
    way at 52° S latitude now
    called the Straights of
    Magellan.

  • Early exploration

    Early exploration
    People were becoming curious which lead to exploration of the world. Ships were now being used to travel around the sea. James cook was one of the first recorded succesful voyages.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Determined that it took mail
    ships coming from Europe.
     Discovering Surface currents
    and therefore in 1777 published
    the first map of the Gulf
    Stream.
     Suggested use of thermometers
    to locate warm waters of G.S.
    – Eastbound stay in G.S.
    – Westbound avoid G.S.

  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    English Naturalist, Charles
    Darwin, investigated the whole
    of nature leading him to make
    one of the most outstanding
    contributions to biology while
    on his voyage aboard the
    H.M.S Beagle.

  • thomas

    thomas
    1807 - The United States Coast Survey is founded following President Thomas Jefferson's authorization of a survey of the coast.

  • james

    james
    1840 - January 3, 1843, Sir James Clark Ross takes the first modern sounding in the deep sea at Latitude 27 S Longitude 17 W.

  • darwin

    darwin
    Darwin publishes The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, in which he suggests that coral atolls are the final stage in the subsidence and erosion of volcanic islands.

  • edward forbes

    edward forbes
    1843 - Edward Forbes declares that life cannot exist below 300 fathoms in the deep sea, thus starting a 20-year debate on the presence of the lifeless (azoic) zone.

  • alexander

    alexander
    1845 - Alexander Dallas Bache, second superintendent of the Survey of the Coast, issues instructions for systematic surveys of the Gulf

  • matthew

    matthew
    1855 - Matthew Fontaine Maury publishes The Physical Geography of the Sea. Although incorrect in much of the science, Maury's flowing prose leads to popular interest in the oceans and the science of the sea.

  • uss tuscarosa

    uss tuscarosa
    The USS Tuscarora, under Commander George Belknap, uses a Thomson sounding machine on a telegraph cable to survey across the Pacific Ocean between Cape Flattery, Washington, and Japan. Belknap discovers the Juan de Fuca Ridge, indications of seamounts, and indications of the Aleutian Trench and Japan Trench.