Ocean Exploration Persuasive Essay

The oceans cover about seventy-one percent of the world. Of that seventy-one percent, we have explored less than five percent. Oceanic exploration has been happening for hundreds of years. The ocean is a major part of people's everyday life . Ocean exploration has been, is, and will be beneficial for everyone. “Underwater exploration was once limited to the span of time a diver could hold his or her breath. For centuries people dreamed of extending that time.” (National Geographic 2016). In 1797, Karl Klingert invented a diving that had an airtight metal helmet and breathing tube connected to it, nationgeographic.com states. Move ahead three years, and the French build a human-powered submarine. It took another eighty-eight years for the French to build an electric submarine in 1888. In 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom the the North Atlantic Ocean. Seventy-three years later, in 1985, the Titanic was
Bush’s 211 million acres. “More land has been protected than ocean” David Helvarg tells nationalgeographic.com. Nereus, a robotic submarine, dove 6.8 miles in the Marianas Trench, which is a part of the Pacific Ocean. It is currently the deepest-diving vehicle, according to bbc.co.uk. Nereus is controlled by a remote that is attached to the vehicle. The remote is controlled by men above the ocean in a ship. Currently, the deepest-rated vehicles are able to descend a little over four miles, which allows scientists to access ninety-five percent of the ocean floor. Nereus is striving to change that to one hundred percent, bbc.co.uk