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Oceans: The Last Great Unexplored Frontier?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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How Deep Are the Oceans?

We've been plying the seas for tradefor thousands of years. It wasn't realy until the spice trade that in the seventeenth century that people started going across tote the indian ocean. People didn't go out to explore the oceans for ocean's sake. They went out there to make money, and they went out to trade andto take lands. We didn't really start exploring, i thing, probably certonly british perspective, until the challenger expedition of ithing about 17 26 or 18 26. And partly thinks, doyou know how much is unexplored if you haven't explored it? I also think its proof that some one like my dad wasn't in

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