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- Alvin
- A submersible used to study the Titanic wreck, helped in the study of rift valley (Project FAMOUS)
- Archimede
- French submersible, made first visual study of rift valley (Project FAMOUS)
- Belle
- Robert Cavalier's shi, its wrech was found along the Texas Bay in 1995
- Crache
- German Ship used to study the Baltic and North Seas in 1881, 1882, 884
- Endeavour
- The ship of Capt James Cook on an expedition to chart the transit of Venus, circumnavigated the world, explored coats of Nea Zealand and E. Australia, 1768
- Enterprise
- US ship that circumnavigated world between 1883 and 1886
- Golden Hind
- The ship of Sir Francis Drake
- Hansa Carrier
- 1990, Container ship that lost 221 deck containers that carried Nike shoes
- Kon-Tiki
- wierd one w/ no description
- SS Pomerania
- German ship used to study the Baltic and North Seas in 1871/1872
- Porcupine
- Used by British to study depths btwn Scotland and Faroe Islands, has dredge (Charles Wyville Thomson)
- Resolution
- Ship of Cptn james Cook that wen to S. Pacific and W. coast of N. America dn Hawaii (last two voyages)
- Trieste
- 1960, Swiss-built, US Navy staffed bathyscaphe that explored Mariana Trench (11,911 m)
- Vasa
- A 17th century man-o-war that sank in 1628 in Stockholm Harbor, was located in 1956 and raised in 1961. No shipworms destroyed it b/c the Baltic Sea is too salty for shipworms to live in
- Voringen
- Norwegian ship used to stdy North Atlantic, 1876-1878
- Adventure
- one of James Cook's ships, used to chart many islands in the South Pacific and the ANtarctic Oce3ans during his second voyage in 1772-1775
- Albatross
- First ship built especially for scientific ocean exploration by the US Fis commission in 1882
- Atlantis
- The vessel used to transport the submersible Alvin, one of the three WHOI research vessels
- Challenger
- a sailing vessel with auxiliary steam power, commanded by Charles Wyville Thompson on a three-and-a-half year voyage over 110,840 km. The most comprehensive single oceanographic expedition ever undertaken
- Chikyu
- new, larger vessel to replace JOIDES Resolution. Not yet completed when this book was written, sceduled to be finished in October 2003
- Discoverer
- NOAA research vessel, studied seafloor spreading around the mid-atlantic ridge
- Discovery
- One of james Cook's ships on his third and last voyage leading to the discovery of the hawaiian islands in 1778
- Exxon Valdez
- oil tankier that crashed in March 1989, considered largest US oil spill, emptied 35,000 tons of oil into Prince William Sound
- Fram
- vessel that Fridtjof Nansen specially designed to freese into an iceberg and study currents as the ship drifted
- JOIDES Resolution
- Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, a deep-sea drilling vessel used to obtain core samples of the ocean floor
- Kaiko
- Japanese ROV, the only ROV presently capable of descending bleow 6500m
- Knorr
- second of three WHOI research vessels
- Oceanus
- third of three WHOI research vessels
- Pomerania, SS
- German ship used to study the Baltic and North Seas in 1871-72
- Titanic
- Sank in 1912, wreck discovered in 1985 by Robert Ballard
- Travailleur
- Cruise financed by the French government in 1880s
- USS Ramapo
- A Navy tanker encounterd a typhoon in 1933, with waves 112 ft high