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Jacques Cousteau

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On 16th March 1914, Sir John Murray, the noted oceanographer, died at Kirkliston.

Born in Coburg, Ontario, the son of a Scottish emigrant, John Murray left Canada for Scotland at the age of 17, attending Stirling High School and Edinburgh University.

His main academic reputation was gained in the field of oceanography, and he took part in several famous scientific expeditions. Between 1872-6 he was on board HMS Challenger in her mapping and examination of the world’s oceans, and from 1881 publishing the findings.

Through Murray’s efforts the Challenger Office, founded in Edinburgh, became an international centre for marine science as well as the office for the co-ordination of the Bathymetrical Survey. Murray also founded the Granton Marine Station, which went on to research and investigate the Firth of Forth and North Sea.

Further afield, Murray went on to explore the sea bed off Spitzbergen and the Faeroe Islands, and in 1884, he researched the sea lochs on the west coast of Scotland in his own purpose-built yacht, Medusa.

Murray lived at Challenger Lodge, named after the expedition, on Boswall Road in Trinity, Edinburgh with commanding views over the Firth of Forth. He was killed when his car overturned ten miles west of his home on this day 1914 at Kirkliston near Edinburgh at age 73, he is buried at the city’s Dean Cemeter

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Jacques Cousteau

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The oceanographer credited for locating the sunken Titanic was actually on a cover-up search for two downed US nuclear submarines. #FACT

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Hot take aliens in movies don’t need to go undercover to learn about our world and our collective history because this place is just filled with scholars, educators, researchers, and individuals who have hyperfixations that are just dying to tell someone about what they like.

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Vase Shells, scientifically known as Vasinae, are a taxonomic subfamily of large predatory sea snails.

Source: Wye, K. (2010). The shell handbook. Kerswell Books Ltd.