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Ocean exploration is a part of , Diving , Navigation , depth Measurement , Exploration and Cartography .


TIMELINE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION


Early exploration

  • 4500 B.C. Around this time, coastal cultures like those in Greece and China began diving into the sea as a source of food gathering, commerce, and possibly even warfare.

  • 4000 Egyptians developed Sail ing vessels, whitch were probably used only in the eastern Mediterranean near the mouth of the Nile River .

  • 4000 B.C. - 1000 A.D. Polynesia n colonization of South Pacific Islands.

  • 1800 Basic measuring of the depths is done in Egypt.

  • 600 Phoenicians developed sea routes around the entire Mediterranean and into the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean . Going around Africa they reached England by sailing along the western European coast. Although they understood Celestial Navigation , they probably stayed within sight of land whenever possible.

  • 500-200 Greeks developed trade routes in the Mediterranean using the length of the day (corrected for the time of the year) to estimate Latitude .

  • 450 Herodotus publishes a map of the Mediterranean region.

  • 325 Pytheas , a Greek Astronomer and Geographer , sailed north out of the Mediterranean, reaching England and possibly even Iceland and Norway. He also developed the use of sightings on the North Star to determine latitude.

  • 200 Eratosthenes determines fairly accurately the Circumference of the Earth using angles of shadows in Syene and Alexandria.

  • 150 B.C. Ptolemy produces a map of the Roman world, including lines of latitude and Longitude , the continents of Asia , Europe, and Africa and the surrounding oceans.

  • 900 A.D. -1430 A.D. Vikings explore and colonize Iceland , Greenland , Newfoundland .

  • 1405-1433 Chinese send seven voyages to extend Chinese influence and impress their neighbor states. These expensive voyages are ended after a short time.

  • 1410 Ptolemy's map of the oceans is published once more after European crusades capture Roman libraries from Arab peoples.



Age Of Exploration begins


  • 1498 Vasco Da Gama sails around Africa from Portugal reaching India and establishing trade routes

  • 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan 's ships Circumnavigate the world.

  • 1620 Dutch physician Cornelis Drebbel builds the world's first Submarine and makes several trips in the Thames River near London at a depth of about 12 or 15 feet.

  • 1698-1700 Edmund Halley made probably the first primarily scientific voyage to study the variation of the Magnetic Compass , sailing as far as 52 deg S. in the Atlantic Ocean . On a previous expedition to St. Helena, he made an important contribution to knowledge of the trade winds.

  • 1768-1780 A.D. James Cook explores the southern parts of the oceans looking for the southern continent. He was the first to use a Chronometer to determine longitude.

  • 1831-1836 A.D. Charles Darwin sails on the Beagle, exploring the Galapagos and many other areas. It is this work which led him to develop the concept of natural selection and evolution.

  • 1872-1876 A.D. The H.M.S. Challenger travels around the world on a scientific mission; taking sediment samples, water samples, soundings, and collecting many biological specimens.

  • 1960 Bathyscaphe Trieste dives to what was believed to be the deepest point in the Mariana Trench . A depth of 10,915 meters was observed.




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