HMS Challenger and oceanology today
HMS Challenger
The HMS challenger was no ordinary ship, this ship went around the world exploring the seas. The British government agreed for this ship to go on a voyage, this only happened because Charles Wyville Thompson persuaded them to go. Thompson was a marine biologist who thought there was more to the seas than had been thought by others. This voyage happened because he truly believed there was more to life beyond the waves.
On the voyage they found all sorts of different sea creatures. They took temperature's of the sea as well as gauging depths of different parts, they spent three and a half years studying the seas.
This paved the way for research to continue till this very day.