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The first recorded use of copper hooks as tools for catching fish (5000 B.C.)
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The first sea voyage ever recorded. Went from Egypt to the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea (3200 B.C.)
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Alexander the great started his journey to where the land met the sea. He and his troops expected to battle sea monsters but all they found were the tides. This was the first observation of tides
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Dried fish were traded in the persian gulf (1200 BC)
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Leif Erikson and the vikings sailed from Greenland to North America ( 1002 ad.)
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First person to attempt and map the world and try to figure out the diameter. (264-194 B.C.)
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Pliny the Elder connected the tides with the moon for the first time, (40 A.D.)
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Prince Henry sent expeditions down the West coast of Africa.
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bartholomew and his crew were the first to round the Cape of Good Hope
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Christopher Columbus discovers american
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The Chinease were undoubtedly the most technolgicaly advanced nation in the world. They were so advanced that they eventually stopped exploration and trading because no other nation could offer them anything worth trading for
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Vasco Nunez crosses Isthmus and enters the pacific ocean from Europe
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Magellan was the first person to attempt to sail around the entire earth. This brought up controversy because it was believed that the earth was flat. He did not complete the journey because he was eaten by cannibals but his crew did finish.
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Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity helped explain the tides along with the moon. This was later published for the world to know
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First person to ever take soundings and understand the ocean
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The Challenger was the first ship to go out into the sea that had the sole purpose of trying to discover new things and take different readings if the ocean.
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ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Seas) were oragnized to fund and promote sea exploration.
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Alfred Wegener hypothesized the theory of continental drift.
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NOAA was established to monitor exploration on the water.
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Satelite launched to monitor changes and information in the worlds oceans.
