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he UK’s National Oceanography Center (NOC) has data on the physical properties of the ocean. The second was a long history, going back to the National Institute of the DOGGIE concept. This was a deep ocean vehicle which

Oceanography, formed in 1949, becoming the Insti- would look at geology and geophysics (using sonar). These tute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS), incorporating were the primary ideas that sat behind the Autosub program

T two other bodies, in 1973, based in a village called and a huge amount of work happened at IOS in developing

Wormley, west of London, before becoming part of the NOC these concepts.” at a new dedicated waterfront premises in 1995.

Similarly, in 1996, while the