Craft	Data	Citations
Advanced Tethered Vehicle (ATV)	20-foot Navy robot. Dives up to 6 kilometers. Has three arms, and several still and video cameras.	[1]
Advanced Unmanned Search System (AUSS)	17-foot long Robot that does not need a tether. Begun by the US Navy in 1973. Purpose was to hunt for lost equipment, down to a depth of 6.1 kilometers. Made 114 successful dives for the Navy. Given to private industry in 1994.	[1]
Akademik Mstislav Keldysh	422-foot mother ship for Russia's Mir submersibles. One of the world's largest oceanographic research vessels.	[1]
Alvin	25-foot craft, carries up to 3 people. Completed by the US Navy in 1964. Operated by Woods Hole. Dives to a depth of 4.5 kilometers.	[1]
Aquarius	An underwater habitat located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and operated by the National Undersea Research Center (NURC) at the University of North Carolina–Wilmington. Aquarius was built in Victoria, Texas, in 1986. Underwater operations first began in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Following Hurricane Hugo in 1988 Aquarius was taken to NURC for repairs and refurbishment and was redeployed in the Florida Keys in 1992. Aquarius is located under 20 m (62 ft) of water at the base of a coral reef within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, an ideal site for studying the health of sensitive coral reefs. The laboratory is most often used by marine biologists. Aquarius houses sophisticated lab equipment and computers, enabling scientists to perform research and process samples without leaving their underwater facilities.	Wikipedia
Argo	15-foot tethered robot Built by Americans Robert Ballard and his team at Woods Hole First operation in 1984. Video cameras send images to the surface over a fiber-optic line.	[1]
Atlantis II	225-feet long. Mothership of Alvin. Retired in 1996.	[1]
Avalon (DSRV)	One of two Navy Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles. The other is Mystic.	[1]
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Cable-Controlled Underwater Recovery Vehicle (CURV)	Completed in 1965. The US Navy's first undersea robot, used for recovering torpedoes.	[1]
Challenger	226-foot British corvette. Sailed around the world between 1872 and 1876. Found 4,717 new species on land and sea.	[1]
La Chalupa	In the early 70's, Ian Koblick, president of Marine Resources Development Foundation, developed and operated the La Chalupa research laboratory. It was the largest and most technologically advanced underwater habitat of its time. Koblick, who has continued his work as a pioneer in developing advanced undersea programs for ocean science and education, is the co-author of the book Living and Working in the Sea and is considered one of the foremost authorities on undersea habitation. In the mid 80s La Chalupa was transformed into Jules' Undersea Lodge. Jules' co-developer Dr. Neil Monney formerly served as Professor and Director of Ocean Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy, and has extensive experience as a research scientist, aquanaut, and designer of underwater habitats. Jules' has had over 10,000 overnight guests in its 20 years of operation. It is still the only underwater hotel in the world.	Wikipedia
Conshelf I	Continental Shelf Station I, constructed in 1962, was the first inhabited underwater habitat. Developed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau to record basic observations of life underwater, it was submerged in 10 metres of water near Marseilles. The first experiment involved a team of two spending seven days in the habitat. The two oceanauts, Albert Falco and Andre Laban, were expected to spend at least five hours a day outside of the station, and were subject to daily medical exams. They were among the first to breath a mixture of helium and oxygen, avoiding the normal nitrogen/oxygen mixture which when breathed under pressure can cause temporary mental instability. This was also an early effort in saturation diving.	Wikipedia
Con-Shelf II	Conshelf Two, the first ambitious attempt for men to live and work on the sea floor, was launched in 1963. In it, a half-dozen oceanauts lived 10 meters down in the Red Sea off Sudan in a star-fish shaped house for 30 days. The undersea living experiment also had two other structures, one a submarine hangar that housed a small, two man submarine referred to as the "diving saucer" for its resemblance to a science fiction flying saucer, and a smaller "deep cabin" where two oceanauts lived at a depth of 30 meters for a week. The undersea colony was supported with air, water, food, power, all essentials of life, from a large support team above. Men on the bottom performed a number of experiments intended to determine the practicality of working on the sea floor and were subjected to continual medical examinations.	Wikipedia
Con-Shelf III	Conshelf III was tested in 1965. Six divers lived in the habitat at 100 metres in the Mediterranean near the Île du Levant for three weeks. In this effort, Cousteau was determined to make the station more self-sufficient, severing most ties with the surface. A mock oil rig was set up underwater, and divers successfully performed several industrial tasks.	Wikipedia
CUSS-1	World's first deepwater drill ship. Became active in 1961. Acronym formed from the companies that owned it: Continental, Union, Shell, Superior. Strengthened and modified by the American government.	[1]
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Deep Flight	One-person winged submersible. Designed by Graham Hawkes.	[1]
Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV)	50-foot Navy submersible. Dives up to 2 kilometers. Currently (2006) two in existence - Avalon and Mystic	[1]
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Galathea	266-foot Danish ship. From 1950-1952, surveyed the oceans using echo-sounders, trawls and dredges.	[1]
Glomar Explorer	618-foot long ship. Launched in 1974 Built by the CIA, secretly. Ostensibly, a deep-ming ship built by Howard Hughes.	[1]
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Halibut	350-foot American submarine. Launched in 1965 A converted spy vessel.	[1]
Hesperides	Spanish naval vessel. In 1992, sailed from the Canary Islands across the Atlantic to the Bahamas to onvestigate the theory of global warming. Stopped 101 times to measure the temperature of the deep.	[1]
Hydrolab	Hydrolab was constructed in 1966 and used as a research station from 1970. The project was in part funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Hydrolab could house 4 people. Approximately 180 Hydrolab missions were conducted; 100 missions in the Bahamas during the early to mid 1970s, and 80 missions in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, from 1977 to 1985. The habitat was decommissioned in 1985 and placed on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National History Museum in Washington, D.C.. The habitat is now located at the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, MD.	Wikipedia
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Jason	7-foot tethered robot. Launched in 1989 Designed by Robert Ballard, owned by the Navy.	[1]
Jason Junior	3-foot prototype of the Jason robot. Launched in 1986 Designed by Robert Ballard, owned by the Navy. "A flying eyeball on a short tether."	[1]
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MarineLab	The MarineLab underwater laboratory is the longest serving seafloor habitat in history, having operated continuously since 1984 under the direction of aquanaut Chris Olstad at Key Largo, Florida. The seafloor laboratory has trained hundreds of individuals in that time featuring an extensive array of educational and scientific investigations from US Military investigations to pharmaceutical development.	Wikipedia
Mir	One of two (Mir I and Mir II)26-foot long Russian submersibles Launched in 1988 Carries 3 passengers; dives to 6.1 kilometers Operated by Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow	[1]
Mizar	256 foot long cargo ship. Coverted by the US Navy in the 1960s into an oceanographic research vessel	[1]
Mystic (DSRV)	One of two Navy Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles. The other is Avalon.	[1]
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Nadir	183-foot long French ship. Mothership of the Nautile	[1]
Nautile	26-foot French submersible Launched in 1985 Dives to 6 kilometers, carries 3 people	[1]
Nuclear Research-1 (NR-1)	136-foot long US Navy submarine equipped with viewports and wheels Launched in 1969	[1]
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Point Lobos	110-foot long research ship Owned by the Monterey Bay Aquarium research Institute The mother ship of the robot Ventana	[1]
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Resolution	471-foot roving drill ship Owned by JOIDES (Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling	[1]
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Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station	The Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station was designed, constructed and operated by NASA from 1997-1998 as a seafloor platform for the investigation of aspects of Advanced Space Life Support Systems and as an educational and outreach platform.	Wikipedia
Sea Cliff	30-foot submersible Built by the US Navy, launched in 1968 Dives to 6.1 kilometers	[1]
SEALAB I	Lowered off the coast of Bermuda in 1964 to a depth of 58 m (192 feet of seawater (fsw)) below the sea's surface. Constructed from two converted floats and held in place with axles from railroad cars. The experiment involved four divers (LCDR Robert Thompson, MC; Gunners Mate First Class Lester Anderson, Chief Quartermaster Robert A. Barth, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning), who were to stay submerged for three weeks. The experiment was halted after 11 days due to an approaching tropical storm. SEALAB I was commanded by Captain George F. Bond, "Poppa Topside", who was key in developing theories about saturation diving.	Wikipedia
SEALAB II	Launched in 1965. Unlike SEALAB I, included hot showers and refrigeration. Placed in the La Jolla Canyon off the coast of California, at a depth of 62 m. On August 28, 1965, the first of three teams of divers moved into what became known as the “Tilton Hilton” (Tiltin' Hilton, because of the slope of the landing site). Each team spent 15 days in the habitat, but aquanaut/astronaut Scott Carpenter remained below for a record 30 days. In addition to physiological testing, the divers tested new tools, methods of salvage, and an electrically heated drysuit. Aided by a porpoise named Tuffy from the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program, who ferried supplies from the surface. A congratulatory telephone call was arranged for Carpenter and President Lyndon B. Johnson. Unfortunately, Carpenter was calling from a decompression chamber with helium gas replacing nitrogen, so he sounded unintelligible to operators. The tape of the call circulated for years among Navy divers before it was aired on NPR in 1999.	Wikipedia
SEALAB III	SEALAB III used a refurbished SEALAB II habitat, but was placed in water three times as deep. Five teams of nine divers were scheduled to spend 12 days each in the habitat, testing new salvage techniques and conducting oceanographic and fishery studies. Sealab III "was plagued with strange failures at the very start of operations". On February 15, 1969, SEALAB III was lowered to 610 fsw (185 m), off San Clemente Island, California. The habitat soon began to leak and 6 divers were sent to repair it, but they were unsuccessful. Tragically, during the second attempt aquanaut Berry Cannon died. It was later found that his breathing apparatus was missing baralime, the chemical necessary to remove carbon dioxide. The SEALAB program came to a halt and although the habitat was retrieved, it was eventually scrapped. Aspects of the research continued in classified military programs, but no new habitats were built.	[2], Wikipedia
Shinkai 6500	31-foot long Japanese submersible Launched in the 1990s Dives up to 6.5 kilometers.	[1]
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Tektite I	The Tektite underwater habitat was constructed by General Electric and was funded by NASA, the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Interior. On February 15, 1969, four U. S. Department of Interior scientists descended to the ocean floor in Great Lameshur Bay in the U. S. Virgin Islands and occupied the Tektite I. By March 18, 1969, the four aquanauts had established a new world's record for saturated diving by a single team. On April 15, 1969, the aquanaut team returned to the surface with over 58 days of marine scientific studies. The Tektite II missions (using the same habitat) were carried out in 1970. Tektite II comprised ten missions lasting 10-20 days with four scientists and an engineer on each mission. The Tektite II missions were the first to undertake in-depth ecological studies. The Tektite Project was led by Dr. Theodore Marton who worked for General Electric.	Wikipedia
Tiburon	Scientific robot owned by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Launched in 1966.	[1]
Trieste	50-foot long bathyscaph Constructed by Swiss inventor Auguste Piccard. Launched in 1953 Purchased by the US Navy in 1958.	[1]
Trieste II (2)	Actually two bathyscaphs. The first was 75 feet long, launched in 1964 by the US Navy, and served until 1966. The second, 79 feet long, served between 1966 and 1982.	[1]
Turtle	26-foot long submersible Launched in 1968 by the US Navy. Dives to a depth of 3.0 kilometers.	[1]
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Ventana	8-foot long robot Launched in 1988. Owned and operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.	[1]
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