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SCRIPPS
INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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Capricorn Expedition, 1952
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| Capricorn Expedition, 1952 - Home |
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| This was the first Scripps
expedition to use scuba divers to explore the Pacific. Research ships
HORIZON and SPENCER F. BAIRD mapped seamounts and guyots and other
features of the Pacific seafloor. Scientists studied the 35,400 foot
deep Tonga Trench, the second deepest place in the ocean, and measured
heat flow on the East Pacific Rise. Operation Ivy, the U.S. first test
of a thermonuclear bomb, preceded the expedition. |
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