Oceanagraphy

  • Snapping Shrimp

    Snapping Shrimp
    The discovery was made of what was interfering with submarine radar detectors, that would keep making a popping noise, and it was the snapping shrimp.
  • Surf height

    Surf height
    Oceanologists were tasked with finding out how to accurately predict the surf height and swell so the army could find the best situations for landing
  • Magnetic Striping on the Seafloor

    Magnetic Striping on the Seafloor
    This discovery was of the Magnetic Striping of the Sea floor, the Scripps institution of Oceanography dragged the first Magnetometer and found this out.
  • Marianas Trench

    Marianas Trench
    First deep dive into the Mariana's trench of about 10,912 meters in the Trieste
  • Submarine weapons

    Submarine weapons
    Scripps was tasked with making submarine weapon systems for the naval army
  • Titanic

    Titanic
    The discovery of the sunken Titanic, it was found some 3,800 meters down under the water.
  • Mariana Snails

    Mariana Snails
    Scientists went on two expeditions to the Marianas trench in both 2014 and 2017 and found what they call "Mariana Snails" at depths up to 26,000 feet, making them the currently known deepest living thing in the ocean.
  • Undersea Continent

    Undersea Continent
    The Continent Zealandia was discovered about 1 mile underwater, it is thought that this continent was once connected to Australia and Antarctica about 80 million years ago.
  • Life on the moon

    Life on the moon
    Scientist discovered that there is a body of water on one of Saturns Moons that could possibly harbor life, a spacecraft passing the planet detected hydrogen, a key element for life.
  • Underwater Craters

    Underwater Craters
    Underwater craters were formed from methane gas explosions near Norway.