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In the early-to-mid 1980s, WHOI's Dr. Robert Ballard , and WHOI itself, received much publicity because of his (ultimately successful) search for the remains of the ''Titanic'' on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean . HISTORY WHOI was founded in 1930 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation . Henry Bryant Bigelow was its first director. VESSELS WHOI operates several research vessels and vehicles, owned by the United States Navy or the National Science Foundation : {Link without Title} WHOI also shares with MBL a large library of marine-related works . The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has a counterpart on the west coast, the Scripps Institution Of Oceanography . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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