French Invented the aqualung (1951) Began exploring oceans with research ship Calypso (1951) French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, author and researcher
Canadian Movie writer, director, and producer (Terminator, Titanic, Avatar, The Abyss) 2012, first person to solo dive to the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench Discovered new species of sea cucumber, squid worm, and giant single-celled amoeba
American 1960, one of two listed here who descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste Named one of the world's great explorers by Life magazine 2010, received National Geographic Society's greatest honor, the Hubbard Medal
Swedish A founder of oceanography Developed the eponymous current meter
Swiss 1960, one of two listed here who descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste 1969, leader of the Franklin Mission, in which a 6-man crew remained submerged for 4+ weeks, performing a bottom survey along the drift track over the Continental Shelf
American 1958, commander of the U.S.Navy submarine Nautilus during its voyage under the Arctic Ocean, to the North Pole 1965 to 1973, Congressman from Tennessee
Swiss 1930's, made several record high flights in balloons Designing balloons for high altitude led him to seek to build a deep sea submersible 1937-1948, Invented the bathyscaphe, a deep-diving vessel Son used his bathyscaphe to reach the Mariana Trench
American 1929, established Momsuch Station in Bermuda for tropical ocean research 1934, descended over 1/2 mile in a bathysphere Prolific scientific writer, both popular and academic
American b. 1942 Discovered the wrecks of the RMS Titanic (1985), the battleship Bismarck (1989), the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (1998), and John F. Kennedy's PT-109 (2002)
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