Ocean

Ocean exploration history

  • Period: 5000 BCE to 1 BCE

    5000 BC

    Start
  • 4000 bc
    4000 BCE

    4000 bc

    This is the first time a vessel was able to go across water
  • 325 bc
    325 BCE

    325 bc

    Alexander the Great makes use of a crude diving bell to employ combat divers during the siege of Tyre. The diving bell was glass so that the diver was able to see through it
  • Period: 1 CE to

    1 ad- 1600

  • 900
    900

    900

    The ancient Vikings begin to explore and colonize Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland and made homes to live in.
  • 1492
    1492

    1492

    The Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus sets out on his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a way to China and India.
  • Period: to

    1601 to 1800

  • 1620 First Submarine

    1620 First Submarine

    Dutch physician Cornelis Drebbel built the world's first submarine. The submarine was made of woodand 12 oarmen where inside in order to maintain and steer the boat
  • 1800

    1800

    The Nautilus was the first steamboat to be created by Robert Fulton
  • Period: to

    1801-1900

  • 1807

    1807

    The United States survey was signed by Thomas Jefferson. The organization studies the ocean in the easrt coast and returns data
  • 1888

    1888

    The first electric submarine was launched by the french navy and contains a 204 cell battery
  • Period: to

    1901-1950

  • The titanic sinking

    The titanic sinking

    The White Star Liner RMS Titanic sinks after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean.
  • Live coelacanth found

    Live coelacanth found

    Fisherman on the coast of south africa found a prehistoric fish called a coelacanth.
  • Period: to

    1951-1970

  • 1961 Tow System developed

    The Scripps Institution of Oceanography begins development of the Deep Tow System.
  • NOAA establishment

    NOAA establishment

    the NOAA is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans.
  • Period: to

    1971- 2021

  • Argo Project Begins

    Argo Project Begins

    A program known as Argo begins to deploy 3,000 robotic probes throughout the world's oceans to tell what the temperature is.
  • First Solo Dive to the Mariana Trench

    First Solo Dive to the Mariana Trench

    A hollywood movie star named James Cameron becomes the first ever to dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench