🌎 If you watched the incredible Blue Planet II you will have seen the exploration of the Midnight Zone and the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. But did you know the Mariana Trench was first discovered in 1875 by the crew of the British naval ship H.M.S Challenger? In 1872, the warship HMS Challenger was modified to include laboratories and a photographic room on the main deck, following a proposal by Edinburgh University professor and marine zoologist named Charles Wyville Thompson to the Royal Society of London. Royal Society scientists supported the proposed of a global expedition of a detailed and comprehensive study the ocean. She set sail from England on 21 December 1872, with a crew of six scientists and around 250 sailors and officers. By the time of Challengers return in May 1876, she would carry a cargo of scientific contributions that continue to shape our understanding of the ocean today, discovering thousands of new species and proving that life could exist even at enormous depths. Learn more at the National Museum of the Royal Navy about HMS Challenger expedition in our Worlds Beneath the Waves exhibition at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Image: Crew of HMS Challenger #BluePlanet #BluePlanetII #HMSChallenger #Oceanogrpahy
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JASA This work analyzes the relationship between the transmission loss of early, resolved arrivals from refracted-surface-reflected rays and the sea-ice characteristics in the Canada Basin during 2016-2017: https://lnkd.in/gJvmTNtu #acoustics Scripps Institution of Oceanography Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Naval Postgraduate School
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CEO Ocean STL Consulting / Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Deputy NOAA Administrator / Former Oceanographer of the Navy / Fellow at The Explorers Club
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