Early Ocean Explorers

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Archimedes

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Discovered floating objects are supported by buoyancy

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Phoenicians

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Skilled seafarers that recorded the earliest trade routes

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Ptolemy

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Created a fairly accurate map of the world

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Vikings

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Continued sea exploration at the halt of the Roman empire and built superior ships for that time period

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Bartholomeu Dias

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Sailed around the southern tip of Africa (the cape of good hope)

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Christopher Columbus

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Set out to find a new route from Spain to India. Found Central and South America

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John Cabot

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Mapped the coast of North America from Labrador to present day Delaware

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Amerigo Vespucci

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First person to realize North America wasn't Asia. Named it Mundus Novus

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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Traveled across Panam and saw the Pacific ocean (then called el mar de sud)

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Ferdinand Magellan

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First person to attempt to circumnavigate the world

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Giovanni de Verrazano

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Explored the coast of North America from Georgia to Massachusetts

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Jacques Cartier

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Traveled along the St. Lawrence river and the eastern coast of Canada

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Henry Hudson

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Explored and mapped the Hudson river

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Captain James Cook

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Explored the South Pacific

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Benjamin Franklin

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Invented a heating device

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Charles Darwin

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A naturalist; observed plants and animals in South America

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Matthew Maury

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Published one of the first oceanography books

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Charles Wyville Thompson

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Organizer of the Charles expedition

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Fridtjof Nansen

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Established the principle in oceanography known as the Ekman spiral

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Edmond Halley

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Devised a method of determining the age of the ocean from chemical denudation

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Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan

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Invented the Aqua-lung

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William Beebe

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Deep dives in the Bathysphere

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Jaques & Auguste Piccard

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Pioneers of deep-sea exploration

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Robert Ballard & Jean-Louis Michel

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Led a team of French and American explorers who found the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.

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Sylvia Earle

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Lead the first all-female team of aquanauts in Tektite II.