History

Portugal sits between the sea on one side and the mountains of the Iberian Peninsula on the other, and as it was hinted that there were ‘Castilians with knives’ on the other side of the mountains, Portuguese pathfinders chose to explore by sea. Motivated by curiosity and a desire to expand into new places, explorers realised there were big financial gains – and treasures to be found – through the discovery of new…

Located right off the coast of the Rakhine State, Myanmar, Ramree Island and its white beaches and swaying palms are the perfect slice of heaven that every island should be. However, its infamous place in the history books comes from eyewitness reports of an animals-gone-wild style massacre during World War II…

The 25-year period from 1897 to 1922 was an era in the history of Antarctica marked by numerous exploratory expeditions. During this Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, as this period is called, there was an international focus on the scientific and geographical exploration of the South Polar regions…

During the Cold War, advanced deep-water detection was almost an exclusively military preserve. That began to change in the early 1990s, when Paul R. Tidwell, a maritime researcher, used once highly secret military methods and gear to locate a mysterious Japanese submarine lost in the Atlantic during World War II…

In the late 1940s, Jacques Cousteau entered into a contractual partnership with inventor Dimitri Rebikoff to create specialized equipment for his underwater expeditions. This collaboration blossomed, enabling Cousteau to produce his Oscar-winning film, “A World Without Sun”…

In the history of underwater scientific research, there are many forgotten chapters with fascinating stories, featuring dreams, flights of imagination, and bold ideas. One of these chapters is “Bentos-300.”…

The age of polar exploration provided a wealth of information for science to sift as they laid the foundations that remain firm to this day. It was a heroic era when the simple act of going to places never before trod on by human feet would inevitably lead to scientific as well as geographic insights. The race to the pole has…

HMS Bounty was originally a merchant ship known as Bethia, built by Blaydes Shipyard in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England in 1784. The ship was relatively small at 215 tons, she was 90 feet 10 inches long with a beam of 24 feet 4 inches and a draft of 11 feet 4 inches. She had no…

Currently, there are only six countries that have nuclear-powered submarines: the UK, US, China, Russia, India, and France. Several other countries including Argentina, Brazil and Australia have ongoing projects in different phases to build nuclear-powered submarines. Nuclear subs work differs from…