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This timeline starts at the 0 mark in history to show how exploration has changed and evolved as technology has advanced.
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The first true diving bell was created by Guglielmo de Lorena. This diving bell had enough air to keep someone underwater for an hour.
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The very first plans for a submarine are formulated by William Bourne.
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Cornelis Drebbel builds the worlds first submarine. He makes several trips of about 15-20 feet below sea level. It was made of wood and and iron; on the inside, it was covered with leather. The submarine had about twelve oarmen.
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Edmund Halley figures out how to replenish a diving bell. He figured that you have to send wighted barrels of air down to the diving bell.
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Chevalier de Beauve delopes the first water proof suit. This includes lead shoes and two leather tubes for air.
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John Lethbridge develops the very firs, completly enclosed, one-man diving suit. It includes a glass window to see through and two arm holes with watertight sleeves.
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Sieur Freminet inventes a helment were a ube is connected and air is pummed through the tube to the helmet. He is able to stay underwater for an hour.
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The first use of scuba gear happened. This was a completly enclosed body device.
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Sir James Clark Ross conducted the first deep water sounding.
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Edward Forbes, a British Naturalist, beviles that life can't exist below 300 ft. This causes a 20 year debate.
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Edward Forbes' theory of no deep sea life was questioned when the US surveys the coast and finds indications of sea life more than 6000 ft. below sea level.
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The first chart of the Gulf Stream was created by the US.
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Charles Wyville Thomson discovers Deep Sea life more than 14,400 ft. below sea level.
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Based off of Charles Darwin's work, The Challenger sails on a four year trip while it explorersunder and above water.
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The Albatross, the first reaserch vessel for oceanography is created. This was meant for serious reaserch.
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The Titanic, supposed to be able to survive any inccident, sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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In Cape Cod the Woods Hole Oceanography Institute is founded.
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Reaserchers develop a sono-bouy to eliminate a need for any stations.
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A living Coelacanth, thought to be extinct since the dinosaurs, was found as a five foot living fish.
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Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan develop the first modern scuba so poeple can stay underwater for extended periods of time for reaserch.
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A british ship challenger 2 uses sonar to discover the deepest point in the ocean nearly seven miles down.
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The deepest ocean dive is conducted by Jacques Piccard and two other men. They go down to about a depth of 35,797 ft. below sea level.
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An experiment is conducted where Jacques Cousteau and his reaserchteam stay below water for seven days at 33 ft. below sea level.
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The first robot created to go underwater carrying lights and cammras.
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Scalding vents that shoot hot wter are discovered.
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The titanic was found at thebottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.