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How Hans Hass Changed The World

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Mother Teresa once said, “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” Hans Hass was a marine biologist who had a lot of accomplishments that changed the world. He was born on January 23, 1919, in Vienna, Austria and died on June 16, 2013 in Vienna Austria. Hans was one of the first people to use an underwater camera to capture underwater life. In 1937 he learned goggling. Hass joined the military, but in 1942-1945 he left it due to circulatory conditions in his foot. After he left the military Hans hass continued his underwater research. A cone snail, Protoconus HansHassi, was named after him. Hass got a IADS Lifetime achievement award, and he loved to chase

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