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NOAAS Okeanos Explorer (R 337) is a converted United States Navy ship (formerly USNS Capable (T-AGOS-16)), now an exploratory vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), officially launched in 2010. [1] Starting in 2010, NOAA entered into a five-year partnership with the San Francisco Exploratorium.
Seabed Constructor is a multipurpose offshore vessel owned by Swire Seabed and contracted since December 2016 to British-owned hydrographic survey company Ocean Infinity, based in Houston, Texas, United States. [1][2] Previously known as Olympic Athene and originally Olympic Boa, the ship was launched in 2013 and is flagged in Norway. [3]
Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed. [2] The mission was the final goal for Project Nekton, a series of dives conducted by the United States Navy in the Pacific ...
Beaches are one thing, but the blissful serenity of a perfect pool is quite another. Surrounded by mountains, oceans, deserts, and lakes, here are 44 pools worth diving into — and gazing out from.
RV Falkor is an oceanographic research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Ship time aboard the vessel is made freely available to researchers once they have undergone an application, peer review process, and their proposal has been accepted. [3] One condition for using the Falkor is that research findings and data from all ...
The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width. The maximum known depth is 10,984 ± 25 metres (36,037 ± 82 ft ...
Atlantis was built by Halter Marine Inc., Gulfport, Mississippi. [3] She was laid down in August 1994 and launched in February 1996. [4] She was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 25 February 1998, as RV Atlantis (AGOR-25) a Thomas G. Thompson -class oceanographic research ship. Atlantis completed a year long midlife maintenance and refit at Dakota ...
This population is followed by approximately 20 vessels for 12 hours a day during the months May–September. [219] Researchers discovered that these vessels are in the line of sight for these whales for 98–99.5% of daylight hours. [219] With so many vessels, the air quality around these whales deteriorates and impacts their health.