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Alvin |
A submersible used to study the Titanic wreck, helped in the study of rift valley (Project FAMOUS) |
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Archimede |
French submersible, made first visual study of rift valley (Project FAMOUS) |
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Belle |
Robert Cavalier's shi, its wrech was found along the Texas Bay in 1995 |
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Crache |
German Ship used to study the Baltic and North Seas in 1881, 1882, 884 |
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Endeavour |
The ship of Capt James Cook on an expedition to chart the transit of Venus, circumnavigated the world, explored coats of Nea Zealand and E. Australia, 1768 |
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Enterprise |
US ship that circumnavigated world between 1883 and 1886 |
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Golden Hind |
The ship of Sir Francis Drake |
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Hansa Carrier |
1990, Container ship that lost 221 deck containers that carried Nike shoes |
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Kon-Tiki |
wierd one w/ no description |
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SS Pomerania |
German ship used to study the Baltic and North Seas in 1871/1872 |
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Porcupine |
Used by British to study depths btwn Scotland and Faroe Islands, has dredge (Charles Wyville Thomson) |
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Resolution |
Ship of Cptn james Cook that wen to S. Pacific and W. coast of N. America dn Hawaii (last two voyages) |
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Trieste |
1960, Swiss-built, US Navy staffed bathyscaphe that explored Mariana Trench (11,911 m) |
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Vasa |
A 17th century man-o-war that sank in 1628 in Stockholm Harbor, was located in 1956 and raised in 1961. No shipworms destroyed it b/c the Baltic Sea is too salty for shipworms to live in |
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Voringen |
Norwegian ship used to stdy North Atlantic, 1876-1878 |
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Adventure |
one of James Cook's ships, used to chart many islands in the South Pacific and the ANtarctic Oce3ans during his second voyage in 1772-1775 |
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Albatross |
First ship built especially for scientific ocean exploration by the US Fis commission in 1882 |
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Atlantis |
The vessel used to transport the submersible Alvin, one of the three WHOI research vessels |
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Challenger |
a sailing vessel with auxiliary steam power, commanded by Charles Wyville Thompson on a three-and-a-half year voyage over 110,840 km. The most comprehensive single oceanographic expedition ever undertaken |
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Chikyu |
new, larger vessel to replace JOIDES Resolution. Not yet completed when this book was written, sceduled to be finished in October 2003 |
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Discoverer |
NOAA research vessel, studied seafloor spreading around the mid-atlantic ridge |
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Discovery |
One of james Cook's ships on his third and last voyage leading to the discovery of the hawaiian islands in 1778 |
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Exxon Valdez |
oil tankier that crashed in March 1989, considered largest US oil spill, emptied 35,000 tons of oil into Prince William Sound |
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Fram |
vessel that Fridtjof Nansen specially designed to freese into an iceberg and study currents as the ship drifted |
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JOIDES Resolution |
Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, a deep-sea drilling vessel used to obtain core samples of the ocean floor |
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Kaiko |
Japanese ROV, the only ROV presently capable of descending bleow 6500m |
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Knorr |
second of three WHOI research vessels |
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Oceanus |
third of three WHOI research vessels |
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Pomerania, SS |
German ship used to study the Baltic and North Seas in 1871-72 |
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Titanic |
Sank in 1912, wreck discovered in 1985 by Robert Ballard |
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Travailleur |
Cruise financed by the French government in 1880s |
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USS Ramapo |
A Navy tanker encounterd a typhoon in 1933, with waves 112 ft high |
