Generally, oceanographic work at sea was brought to a stop by the outbreak of war in 1914.
Of interest to the physical oceanographic community is the autonomous capture and transmission of full-depth turbulence parameter profiles.
The " Challenger " and other oceanographic expeditions have shown that on the bottom of the deep sea concretions of phosphate are now gathering around the dead bodies of fishes lying in the oozes; consequently the formation of the concretions may have been carried on simultaneously with the deposition of the strata in which they occur.
Last year, scientists with Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution determined the increased numbers of whale strandings was due to heart failure.