DEEPSEA CHALLENGE / The Expedition / The Mariana Trench. The Challenger had an assignment from the British government to study the physical and biological conditions of the oceans. The HMS Challenger 2 Expedition. [10], Sir Thomson believed, as did many adherents of the then-recent theory of evolution, that the deep sea would be home to "living fossils" long extinct in shallower waters, examples of "missing links". Because of this, the depth measurements from Challenger were, at best, accurate to the nearest 25-fathom (150 ft; 46 m) demarcation. Average global ocean temperature change is 0.59 degrees C. The Royal Society, University of Edinburgh and Mechiston Castle School sponsored the expedition around the globe to explore the deep oceans. A small warship – HMS Challenger was obtained from the Royal Navy and for the expedition and it was converted into a ship for scientific work, equipped with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry, microscopes and other scientific equipment on board. The college hopes to rekindle the spirit of the HMS Challenger. Save and share your favourite specimens using My Challenger. [9] Challenger returned to Spithead, Hampshire, on 24 May 1876, having spent 713 days out of the intervening 1,250 at sea. It will review the ship's historic journey, compare current ocean research tools, technologies and techniques with those used on modern voyages, and build awareness of ocean exploration. Though he was not among the civilian scientific staff, Tizard would later help write the official account of the expedition, and also become a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Challenger expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific program that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. 参考文献. The dredges consisted of metal nets attached to a wooden plank and dragged across the sea floor. HMS Challenger Expedition Completed Missions Major Function the voyages circumnavigated the globe sounded the ocean bottom to a depth of 26,850 feet The H.M.S. Lords Campbell and Balfour left the ship in Valparaiso, Chile, after being promoted. The Silent Landscape: the Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger.Joseph Henry Press, 2003. Before reaching Wellington (on New Zealand's North Island), brief stops were made at Port Hardy (on d'Urville Island) and Queen Charlotte Sound and Challenger passed through the Cook Strait to reach Wellington. [2], The first leg of the expedition took the ship from Portsmouth (December 1872) south to Lisbon (January 1873) and then on to Gibraltar. No bones, no fish. Laboratories, extra cabins and a special dredging platform were installed. The next stops were Madeira and the Canary Islands (both February 1873). Scientists are particularly interested in microorganisms living in the trenches, which they say could lead to breakthroughs in biomedicine and biotechnology. But at the bottom, the Trieste‘s floodlight illuminated a creature that Piccard thought was a flatfish, a moment that Piccard would later describe with excitement in a book about his journey. [citation needed], The final stops, before heading out into the Atlantic, were Port Famine, Sandy Point, and Elizabeth Island. Nothing of the sort came to pass, however; though a few organisms previously regarded as extinct were found and cataloged among the many new discoveries, the harvest was typical of what might be found in exploring any equivalent extent of new territory. 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