Pacific Ocean Events

1722 Apr 5 Easter Island Discovered by European Explorers
The first recorded European contact with the island was on 5 April (Easter Sunday) 1722 when Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen visited for a week and estimated there were 2,000 to 3,000 inh...
1956 Oct 16 Pan Am Flight 6 Crashes
In October 1956, they were passengers aboard a commercial aircraft that also lost two engines, forcing the pilot to land on open water - in their case, the Pacific Ocean. Like the 155 ...
1957 Nov 8 Pan Am's Clipper Romance Of The Skies Crashes
Pan Am Flight 7, registration N90944, Clipper Romance Of The Skies, was an around-the-world-flight originating in San Francisco that flew westbound with several stops before arriving in P...
1962 Mar 16 Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 Disappears over Western Pacific Ocean
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was a Super Constellation propliner chartered by the United States military that disappeared on 15 March 1962 over the Western Pacific Ocean. The aircraft was...
2011 Apr 5 Tepco Announces Radioactice Water Leak into Pacific Ocean Stopped
Leakage of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has halted after Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) injected a chemical ...
2011 Oct 21 Giant Amoebas Discoverd Six Miles Below Ocean's Surface
Scientists plumbing the depths of the Mariana Trench -- the deepest part of the ocean on the planet -- have identified gigantic amoebas lurking miles and miles beneath the waters. The ...