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U.S Coast Survey
President Thomas Jefferson signed an act to allow the surveying of the U.S coast. -
Undersea Canyons
A man named James Alden discovered the first undersea valley, named California's Montery Canyon -
Early Marine Survey of the Americas
Louis Agassiz, a swiss-american scientist, went from the east coast to its west coast and collected around 30,000 specimens from the ocean. -
Marine Survey of the Pacific South
Alexander Agassiz went around the South pacific, collecting more specimens from remote ocean regions. -
First Acoustic Exploration of the Sea
A man named Reginald Fessenden bounced a signal between an iceberg and the seafloor at the same time. -
Study of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
A submarine named the German Meteor surveyed the mid-atlantic sea with echo sounders. -
Exploration of the Mariana Trench
Diving down to the deepest point in the Mariana trench, the bathyscaphe Trieste found that it was 10,912 miles deep. -
Underwater Lab
The first underwater habitat was successfully lowered off tje coast of california. -
Sea Surface Maps
TOPEX/Poseiden, a sattelite, began to map the surface of the sea. -
Seafloor Maps
A declassification of a Geosat radar data leads to the worldwide mapping of the seafloor.
