ocean exploration

By rootbeer2323
  • 7250 BCE

    The greeks!!

    The earliest recorded sea voyage dates back to about this time, when there is evidence of sea trading between the Greek mainland and the Aegean island of Melos.
  • 2494 BCE

    Egyptian voyages. Dude they be trading.

    The Egyptians undertook major journeys from very early times. To get the timber for building their great ships they had to sail hundreds of kilometres north-east to the mountains of Lebanon, while the closest they could find incense indispensible to their divine services was in Punt reached by sailing south through the Red Sea along the East African coast.
  • 2000 BCE

    Phoenicians

    First western navigators, discovered many of the islands near hawaii and new zealand, in make shift row boats.
  • 1500 BCE

    Polynesia the explorers! like Dora but better...

    Polynesians were exploring the Pacific Ocean long before European explorers arrived there. by1100 AD all inhabitable islands had been explored by the Polynesian people.
    they invented impressive canoes for their long voyages.even without advanced technology to guide them, these early explorers learned to observe the direction the waves moved, where currents were located, and the position of the planets and stars to help them to navigate across the ocean
  • 1400 BCE

    Ptolemy's world map thingy...yeah

    The most significant contributions of Ptolemy's maps are the first uses of longitudinal and latitudinal lines as well as specifying terrestrial locations by celestial observations.

    The idea of a global coordinate system revolutionized European geographical thought, however, and inspired more mathematical treatment of cartography.
  • 1000 BCE

    constellations and navigation's (it's all in the stars bruh)

    many of the earliest explorations and sea travels were navigated using the stars in the nights sky. this allowed people to find their way about before maps and real navigation technology was invented.
  • 800 BCE

    the Odyssey (what an epic poem!!!)

    The epic, written by homer in Greece, focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the fall of Troy.The journey of Odysseus from Troy to Ithaca takes ten years — the same amount of time that the Trojan War itself lasted. The extraordinary length of Odysseus' return trip, which should take a matter of weeks, is due to his many antagonists, including the god Poseidon, the many mythical creatures he encounters, and Odysseus' often greedy and lazy crewmen.
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle gettin Greeky

    Instead of eating fish like the common plebs of the time period, Aristotle actually observed, dissected, and studied the various fish species native to the area. he also discovered the benefits of fish oil, because he was chiseled....like a statue.
  • Jan 27, 793

    vikings! (no they didn't have dragons)

    it is often suggested that the Vikings began to embark on their seafaring expeditions for the purpose of exploring and colonising. however, early Vikings were more interested in raiding and pillaging coastal settlements in the British Isles.
    also the Vikings went on a number of expeditions to explore the North Atlantic Ocean which lay to the west of Scandinavia. It was often through losing their way during a storm, however, that the Vikings made their most significant discoveries.
  • Dec 24, 1499

    Vasco da Gama. (actually reached India and didn't commit terrible atrocities to the natives!)

    Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. (take that Christopher Columbus) he was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and, in this way, the West and the Orient.Traveling the ocean route allowed the Portuguese to avoid sailing across the highly disputed Mediterranean and traversing the dangerous Arabian Peninsula.
  • Jan 27, 1500

    Christopher Columbus (WHY DID THEY GIVE HIM A HOLIDAY???)

    was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa, under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain.
    he established permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola initiated the European colonization of the New World.
  • Jan 27, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan. The man. The myth. The legend.

    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth. Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean by the way...pretty cool dude.

  • HMS Endeavour

    was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand.
    Endeavour became the first ship to reach the east coast of Australia.
    and the navy bought her for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean and to explore the seas for the surmised "unknown southern land".

  • James cook (sadly not a chef)

    The three major voyages of discovery of Captain James Cook provided his European masters with unprecedented information about the Pacific Ocean, and about those who lived on its islands and shores.

  • Benjamin Franklin and the gulf stream

    As Deputy Postmaster General of the American colonies, Franklin promoted using the Gulf Stream to speed up delivery of mail from America to Europe, as well as to improve other commercial shipping.

  • Robert Fulton (STEAM BOAT SHENANIGANS!!! - curtsy of steam powered giraffe)

    he was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Claremont.

  • Nautilus (We all live in a yellow submarine/ Yellow submarine, yellow submarine)

    Nautilus was a submarine first tested in 1800. Though preceded by Cornelius Drebbel's vessel. Nautilus is often considered to be the first practical submarine.

  • Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle

    the HMS Beagle took Darwin to the Galapagos Islands, where he observed various animals and birds that had evolved in an isolated environment.this to his famous theory of natural selection
    he also made important observations about the geology of the islands and coastlines he visited. He proposed a theory about the formation of atolls (coral reefs that form small islands that enclose a lagoon.)

  • SCUBA (for the inner mermaid in all of us)

    the First workable, full-time SCUBA is invented by an Englishman, William James. It incorporates a cylindrical belt around the diver's trunk that serves as an air reservoir.
    This allowed people to spend more time underwater exploring and learning about it.

  • Edward Forbes

    Studied and described seafloor fauna, before his discoveries people thought that the ocean floor was barren. much like their minds.

  • The Challenger expedition

    The Challenger expedition was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography.
    It was the first expedition organized specifically to gather data on a wide range of ocean features, including ocean temperatures seawater chemistry, currents, marine life, and the geology of the seafloor.
    it was originally a navy ship that was converted for oceanography equipped with its own laboratories and sciencey equipment.

  • Charles William Beebe

    Beebe and his crew created the bathsphere. a metal sphere that allowed them to observe the deep sea ocean.

  • sonar

    in 1906, American naval architect Lewis Nixon invented the first sonar-like listening device to detect icebergs.
    it was used in WW1 to detect submarines and other ships.
    it allowed us to detect things around us we could not see and theretofore navigate the oceans better.

  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Calypso

    The Calypso, a modified mine-sweeping vessel, was the world's first dedicated marine exploration vehicle. Many of the world's recent advances in marine exploration were made aboard this ship. Other advancements include; SCUBA gear advancements, Observations of marine patterns (migration, breeding grounds), and patterns in the weather and ocean currents.

  • Jacques Cousteau (hon hon hon, oui oui baguette)

    he was a French oceanographer, researcher, filmmaker, and undersea explorer.
    experimented with compressed air cylinders and developed the first Aqua-Lung device which allowed divers to stay underwater for long periods of time. Cousteau also invented an underwater camera that could withstand the pressures of deep water.
    He was concerned about how humans were destroying the oceans, and filmed television specials with an environmental spin on them.

  • The Albatross expedition

    The Albatross expedition was a Swedish oceanographic expedition that sailed around the world during 15 months covering 45 000 nautical miles.
    The expedition looked at biology, and they revealed that those depths were not the dead zone that previously had been the accepted view.

  • satellite technology

    ocean-observing satellites Remotely sense satellite data and modeling techniques enable the global mapping of seasonal changes in ocean surface topography, currents, waves, winds, phytoplankton content, sea-ice extent, rainfall, sunlight reaching the sea, and sea surface temperature. Studying these patterns help forecast and mitigate the disastrous effects of floods and drought. Images generated by satellite missions tell us volumes about the most fundamental climate changes.

  • Fridtjof Nansen (yoohoo big summer blowout!!)

    Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, humanitarian, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
    he joined an expedition to cross Greenland, and uncovered important information about the island's interior.
    also he He believed that an east-west current existed that could carry a ship close to the North Pole. His plan was to sail a strong ship north until it froze in the ice, and then ride the ice pack west toward the pole.

  • motha Russia

    Thawing sea ice and improved technology is opening up the race for natural resource exploration in the Arctic Circle, home to nearly a quarter of the world's untapped oil reserves. Russia leads the race and has promised to adhere to environmental guidelines. But accidents and other damage resulting from the country's oil exploration has led to an environmental disaster.

  • Hercules (ROV) (he was a no one/ a zero zero/ now he's a hot shot/ he's a hero!)

    Hercules is one of the very few Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) specifically designed to be used as a scientific tool.
    was designed primarily to study and recover artifacts from ancient shipwrecks, but it is also well suited to study biology and geology in the deep sea.
    equipped with manipulator arms and several cameras, it is able to help marine biologist study the oceans depths.