John MacFall, official Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953) photographer (man in center) shown here taken a walk on the deck of one the ships used for this expedition. This expedition was the first Scripps expedition to use scuba divers to explore the Pacific. Research ships Horizon and Spencer F. Baird mapped seamounts and guyots and other features of the Pacific seafloor. Scientists studied the 35,400 foot deep Tonga Trench, the second deepest place in the ocean, and measured heat flow on the East Pacific Rise. 1953.

• 1953

• Jones, Alan Churchill, 1927-

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• Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953)

• MacFall, John B.

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