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Challenger expedition. The British Navy vessel H. Challenger circumnavigated the world between December and May , conducting history's first systematic, scientific investigation of the world's oceans.
The Challenger expedition gathered a body of data that has been matched by few voyages of discovery. Elton Garrigo Pundit. What does HMS mean? Yutong Gensmuller Pundit. Who was on the board the HMS Challenger? Amongst the crew that were on the boat were six scientists. Wyville Thomson was the chief scientist, being one of the people along with Carpenter that proposed the idea of the expedition. Casie Vonderthann Pundit. Penka Ramentol Teacher. What happened to HMS Challenger?
HMS Challenger was a unique vessel in Royal Navy service, purpose built to support deep sea operations and saturation diving. In the ship was purchased by a company, Subsea Offshore, to be converted for work decontaminating hazardous waste dumped in the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic.
Luan Gualda Teacher. How much of the ocean has been explored ? Even though humans have explored and mapped large parts of the planet Mars and the moon in outer space, only a small part of the oceans of the world have been explored till now. Medoune Badaoui Teacher. What percent of the ocean has been discovered? Aiyong Braunlin Teacher. Who is the founder of oceanography? Taida Altabas Reviewer. What happened to the Beagle ship? The ship's remains are embedded in five metres of mud at a site near Potton Island.
Darwin himself seems to have had no idea that his former ship ended her life so close to his home in Kent. Marthe Zamoum Reviewer. Was the Glomar Challenger a success? A comparison of modern-day exploration with the late century journey of the HMS Challenger illustrates the progress that science has made in ocean exploration.
The s voyage of HMS Challenger lasted 1, days and covered more than 68, nautical miles. Many consider it to be the first true oceanographic expedition because it yielded a wealth of information about the marine environment.
Those aboard identified many organisms then new to science, and they gathered data at oceanographic stations on temperature, currents, water chemistry, and ocean floor deposits. The scientific results of the voyage were published in a volume, 29,page report that took 23 years to compile. Specialists in numerous scientific disciplines studied the collections and data, and helped produce the reports.
Also, the reports written by members of the Challenger expedition provided rich descriptions of the flora, fauna and cultures of the lands visited. A representation of the HMS Challenger. Although the former warship had a steam engine, its sails were used most often during the expedition to allow for frequent stops. The foot ship was three-masted, square-rigged, and built of wood. In , Dr. Wyville Thomson suggested that the Royal Society of London ask the British government for the use of one of its ships for an extended research cruise.
The government agreed, and the HMS Challenger was modified to conduct oceanic research. Ammunition and 15 of the guns were removed from the ship and replaced with laboratories, workrooms, and storage space.
The HMS Challenger used sails rather than the steam engine most of the time to allow for frequent stops when collecting data.
The steam engine was used only during dredging operations to collect samples from the depths of the ocean floor. The science and ship crew of the HMS Challenger in The original crew of had dwindled to by the end of the long expedition.
Wyville Thomson. It also included 21 naval officers, including Captain George Nares replaced by Captain Frank Thomson in , and approximately crew. When the voyage ended in , only crew remained on the ship. Seven people had died, five left when Captain Nares did, 26 were left in hospitals or were unable to continue the journey, and several had deserted at the various ports of call.
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