It was not until the fifteenth century that Ptolemy's maps were used again and Henry the Navigator of Portugal initiated ocean exploration and maritime research.
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Christopher Columbus, for example, pitched his plans for ocean exploration unsuccessfully to five different rulers before he hit the jackpot with Queen Isabella in Spain.
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In 2010, he re-launched the Ocean Exploration Committee of the Marine Technology Society, a nonprofit membership association supporting students and industry professionals in marine-related fields.
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Japanese researchers successfully tested the world's first deep sea probe run on fuel cells in a step toward more efficient ocean exploration, an official said Tuesday.
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Daley added in describing the Sustainable Seas Expedition, a major ocean exploration by his department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the National Geographic Society.
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Tom Goodwin, biologist and owner of Ocean Explorations, explained the protocol of spout-spotting : The bow of the boat is 12 o'clock, the stern 6 o'clock, and so on.
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There is also a 70, 000-gallon sea turtle aquarium, sea turtle hatchling laboratory, hands-on ocean exploration exhibits, jellyfish and octopus aquariums, and even a life-size model of a humpback whale.
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The feature is named after Victor Quiroga Mart�nez, captain of the Spanish ocean exploration ship " BIO Hesp�rides " that rendered logistic support to the Bulgarian Antarctic campaigns in the 1990s.
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And it was last year's remarkably successful Mediterannean research that proved the value of applying the technologies of deep ocean exploration to the old and often tradition-bound field of archeology, she said.
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The 15-year-old ship will stay in Seattle until it heads for a shipyard to be fitted with equipment to launch unmanned submersibles, said Fred Gorell, a spokesman for NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration.
