History

Few people have ever lived a life that reads like a novel. But Yuri Senkevich didn’t just live one — he seemed to leap between the pages of many. Space medicine pioneer. Antarctic explorer. Atlantic sailor. And above all, the face of Soviet adventure, who brought the world into millions of homes when traveling abroad was only a dream….

In the frozen desert of the Arctic, where icy storms rage and nature itself wages war on anyone who dares enter its realm, Georgy Ushakov began his battle. Not for glory, not for gold, but for knowledge, for his country, for his people—and to erase the last white spots from the map…

In June 1913, the 129-foot Karluk, a former Aleutian whaling ship, embarked on a bold Canadian expedition to survey the northern coast of Canada. Departing from British Columbia, the Karluk aimed to navigate the waters north of Alaska and rendezvous with another vessel, the Alaska, at Herschel Island, near the Alaska-Canada border…

Nestled in the unforgiving Arctic expanse, Wrangel Island stands defiantly against the Siberian coastline, braving the relentless Arctic tempests of the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas. Enveloped in ice for the majority of the year and battered by ferocious cyclonic winds, this remote outpost is not just a haven for the last…

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.”…