1. Who discovered the wreckage of the Titanic in 1985?

2. Who tried to reach the North Pole by sailing there in the Fram?

3. Where was Captain Cook killed?

4. What was Benjamin Franklin's important contribution to oceanography?

5. Name a food which prevents scurvy. What's in it that fights the disease?

6. Who invented the first device to measure longitude?

The answers are at the bottom of the page. Ultra bonus points for knowing about the Fram. I got them all as I've memorized just about everything the professor covered in our first three classes. Sweet! I'm fine as long as we're doing history, but I think you know I'll be studying and sweating when we get to sediments and seawater. I'm enjoying this class, though. I feel like I'm getting a second chance in life, one where I'm not totally intimidated by new information.

What's kind of neat is studying oceanography dovetails nicely with my career. Cruise ships wouldn't be the vacation of choice for millions of people if not for technological advances like bathymetric charts and global positioning satellites, submersible exploration of the ocean floor, constant up-to-date information on tides, currents, waves, weather. The Polynesians may have made astounding voyages using celestial navigation, but it's a lot easier to plan a vacation these days.

Without ocean science my job might not exist.




1. Robert Ballard.
2. Fridtjof Nansen.
3. Hawaii.
4. The first map of the Gulf Stream.
5. Limes, most famously. Vitamin C prevents scurvy.
6. John Harrison.

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