Multimedia: Interviews
Holger Jannasch
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jannasch discusses the significance of the discovery of the vents.
Ken Macdonald
University of California, Santa Barbara
McDonald discusses the 1972 Deep-Tow cruise.
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Robert Ballard
Institute for Exploration, Mystic
Ballard discusses the lead-up to the FAMOUS expedition.
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Robert Ballard
Institute for Exploration, Mystic
Ballard talks about finding the vents during the 1977 expedition.
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Robert Ballard
Institute for Exploration, Mystic
Ballard describes relocating the vents during the 1979 expedition.
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Dick Von Herzen
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Von Herzen talks about the 1977 expedition.
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John Porteous
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Porteous talks when Alvin returned with the first vent animals.
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Marv Lilley
University of Washington
Lilley discusses the 1977 expedition
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Rich Lutz
Rutgers University
Lutz talks about the biological discoveries on the 1979 expedition
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Dudley Foster
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Foster discusses finding high temperature vents at 21°N.
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