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29 Cards in this Set
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Aristotle
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created scientific speicies classification system; he also studied dolphins+
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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founded a navigation center
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Vasco de Gama
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discovered route to India from Portugal
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Balboa
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found the Pacfic Ocean
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Magellan
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Circumnavigated the world
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Fermin Lasuen
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spanish missions priest that came after Father Sera and sailors named ports after him
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Sir Francis Drake
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discovered san francisco bay and was an admiral of the British Fleet
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Henry Hudson
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founded the Hudson Bay Company that was looking for the north west passage
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Abel Tasmen
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discovered Tasmania
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Ben Franklin
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mapped the Gulf Stream
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James Cook
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sailed to Hawaii and Australia. He developed a chronometer that told how fast the ship is going
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Antoine Jerome Balard
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discovered Bromine while studying sea water
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Louis Agassiz
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studied plate tectonics, glaciers, and fossil fish
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Charles Darwin
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developed the theory of coral atoll formation
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Matthew Maury
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charted currents and whale migration
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Edward Forbes
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studeied the deep ocean and found no life in deep ocean
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Thomas H. Huxley
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studied jellyfish
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Chrales Wyville Thomson
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had a boat named The Challenger and found the Mid Atlantic Ridge
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Sir John Murray
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went on the challenger expedition and made charts for navigation
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Fridtjof Nansen
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sampled water, if you want water from 200 feet down, you need a special bottle that captured deep water, also explored the Arctic
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Charles William Beebe
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invented bathysphere for deep ocean diving
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Auguste Piccard
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made underwater submarine
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Vagn Walfrid Ekman
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studied wind and ocean currents
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William Maurice Ewing
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developed underwater camera
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Alfred Wegener
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studied plate techtonics and island formation
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Rachel Carson
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wrote book called "Silent Spring" and "The Sea Around Us." promoted the value of sea. raised awarness on DDT
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Willard Bascom
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studied waves and why they break at sea and on shore
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Robert Ballard
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discovered titanic in 1986 and the Bismark, a war ship
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Eugenie Clark
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is a marine biologist that made movies on sharks and is a shark expert
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