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1933: Manned, spherical deep sea submersibles
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1948: A stratospheric balloon for the deep sea
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1960: At the deepest point of the world's oceans
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1982: Industrial robots for deep sea assignments
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1985: Robots discover the wreck of the RMS Titanic
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1995: You can't go any deeper
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2001: Extreme life on underwater vulcanoes
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From 2003 onwards: first autonomous diving robots
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2004: A crawler measures oxygen
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2004: Fascinating life around the black smokers chimneys
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2005: 'Alvin' detects tubeworm colony
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2009: Six months under water
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2011: Robot control via mouse click
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2014: Taking cues from the animal world
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2016: Breathing only deep sea oxygen for an entire year