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(Just so you know, this was a big deal. He was opposed rather vehemently. Though he was wrong on a lot, he got some stuff right and led to the theory of plate tectonics!)
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(Photo: NOAA Photo Library, photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/ship3020…)
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(Photo: Wildlife Conservation Society; NOAA)
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(Photo: Navigation lattice in W. Aleutians, 1945. NOAA Photo Library)
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(Photo: Advertisement for the Aqualung from 1958)
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(Photo: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; estate of Marie Tharp)
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(Image c/o Library of Congress)
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(Photo: NOAA Photo Library)
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(Photo: Trieste prior to its historic dive. Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic Society)
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(Photo: From USS Compass Island Welcome Aboard handout)
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(Photo: Earle during the 1970 project. C/o AP)
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(Photo: Chuck Nicklin, National Geographic Creative)
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(Photo: history.com/topics/titanic…)
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(Photo: JJ peering into a Titanic stateroom, c/o WHOI)
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(Photo: WHOI)
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(Graphic c/o NASA/JPL)
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(Map c/o UCSD, Walter Smith, Dave Sandwell)
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(Photo: SOC)
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(Photo: Mark Thiessen/National Geographic)
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(Photo: NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel)
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