Alvin
Alvin Is Going to Pieces…Again
The Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin will return home to Woods Hole in mid-October after two years and be taken apart…
Read MoreWhat Is the Alvin Training Program Like?
Like many boys who spend their youths throwing baseballs in Massachusetts parks, Tarantino dreamed of playing for the Red Sox.…
Read MoreAlvin‘s Pilots
Forty summers ago in the Bahamas, two men climbed inside a 23-foot white submarine named Alvin and drove it to…
Read MoreDiving to the Rosebud Vents – Galápagos Rift
In 2002, researchers diving in the submersible Alvin returned to the Galápagos Rift, a mid-ocean ridge about 250 miles from…
Read MoreDeeper-Diving Human Occupied Submersible to Replace Alvin
Arlington, VA –After 40 years of scientific research that led to the discovery of new life forms, helped confirm the…
Read More“Nothing Could Diminish the Excitement Of Seeing the Animals for the First Time”
The scientists who made the surprising discovery of teeming life around hydrothermal vents of the Galápagos Rift in 1977 were geologists and geochemists. They had not expected to find spectacular colonies of previously unknown, large animals on the deep seafloor.
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