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Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer.She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large (formerly Explorer in Residence) since 1998.
After their missions for the Navy, Knorr arrived on site on August 22, 1985, [14] and deployed Argo. When they searched for the two submarines, Ballard and his team discovered they had imploded from the immense pressure at depth. It littered thousands of pieces of debris all over the ocean floor.
Robert Sinclair Dietz (September 14, 1914 – May 19, 1995) was an American scientist with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.Dietz, born in Westfield, New Jersey, [1] was a marine geologist, geophysicist and oceanographer who conducted pioneering research along with Harry Hammond Hess concerning seafloor spreading, published as early as 1960–1961.
During the 1940s, Cousteau is credited with improving the Aqua-Lung design which gave birth to the open-circuit scuba technology used today. According to his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure (1953), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self-contained underwater ...
[47] [70] In September 2015 she presented the John H. Glenn Lecture in Space History Series at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Titled "Looking at Earth: An Astronaut's Journey", Sullivan discussed her life of exploration and discovery, what it is like to fulfill her childhood dreams, and how NOAA's study of our ...
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]Ewing has been described as a ...
Evan Forde, a Miami native, was the first Black oceanographer to explore the Atlantic’s deep canyons in a two-man submersible in 1979. He made history as a Black oceanographer, but he faced ...
Ronald Josiah Taylor, AM (8 March 1934 – 9 September 2012) [1] [2] was an Australian shark expert, as is his widow, Valerie Taylor. [1] [3] They were credited with being pioneers in several areas, including being the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage.