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This is the first time a vessel was able to go across water -
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 -
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The ancient Vikings begin to explore and colonize Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland and made homes to live in. -
The Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus sets out on his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a way to China and India. -
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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 -
The Nautilus was the first steamboat to be created by Robert Fulton -
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The United States survey was signed by Thomas Jefferson. The organization studies the ocean in the easrt coast and returns data -
The first electric submarine was launched by the french navy and contains a 204 cell battery -
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The White Star Liner RMS Titanic sinks after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. -
Fisherman on the coast of south africa found a prehistoric fish called a coelacanth. -
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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography begins development of the Deep Tow System.
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the NOAA is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans. -
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A program known as Argo begins to deploy 3,000 robotic probes throughout the world's oceans to tell what the temperature is. -
A hollywood movie star named James Cameron becomes the first ever to dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench