The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, also commonly referred to as HBOI, is a
private non-profit oceanographic institution located in
Fort Pierce,
Florida,
USA. Founded in
1971 by
John Seward Johnson I, Harbor Branch is located on a 600
acre campus along the
Indian River Lagoon. Its staff includes over 200 scientists, engineers, mariners, and support personnel. The institute has a
$40 million endowment and research grants totaling $15 million a year. Institution assets include a 204-foot research vessel, a pair of
submarines with the ability to reach more than half-mile under the ocean and a library of 47,000
sponges and
microorganisms. "Harbor Branch may be known best for its scientists' discovery of the
Challenger space shuttle
rocket booster on the ocean floor -- the smoking gun that proved a faulty
O-ring caused the
1986 explosion." The Institution is "among three organizations in
America, and six in the world, that run manned deep-sea submersible research vehicles along the
ocean floor." Harbor Branch is currently in the process of merging with
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) to become the HBOI at FAU.
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