Today’s Voyages and Oceanography

Oceanographer Robert Ballard, NOAA

The study of oceanography has come a long way in 6,000 years. Driven by curiosity, ancient explorers built ships to carry them on voyages far from home, and if they were lucky, bring them back to tell their tales of adventure and discovery.

As you learned in this topic, oceanography today is much safer, but the sense of curiosity and adventure still compels people to push further into the vast blue oceans. From the simple diving bells and dangerous steel balls of long ago, to today's advanced ships, satellites, and GPS, people, with the help of the latest technologies of the period, made amazing discoveries that fueled the next generation of oceanographers.

Will you be one?