Posts Tagged ‘seabed’

Titan Sub Pilot Loses Control On Seabed In Documentary Clip From 2022 Dive

A BBC documentary released last year captured a chilling malfunction on the doomed Titan submersible that left passengers stuck circling at the bottom of the ocean. On one of OceanGate’s dives to the Titanic wreckage nearly 13,000 feet below the surface in the North Atlantic, its sub’s thrusters malfunctioned, causing the vessel to spin only […]

‘Ocean Is at Stake’ at International Seabed Authority Negotiations Over Deep-Sea Mining

‘Ocean Is at Stake’ at International Seabed Authority Negotiations Over Deep-Sea Mining  Indigenous activists offer alternative vision for ocean. By: Olivia Rosane Updated: March 29, 2023  Edited by Irma Omerhodzic The 28th Session of the International Seabed Authority stared March 16 with world delegates gathering in Kingston, Jamaica less than two weeks after the Global […]

Could Future EV Battery materials Come From the Seabed?

Could Future EV Battery materials Come From the Seabed?Published on May 24, 2021Written by motortrend.com A billion batteries’ worth of rare metals lie on the ocean floors. In my April “Green Issue” column, I fearlessly predicted that the long-term carbon-neutral future of personal transportation would be electric vehicles powered by renewable energy. Projections by Deloitte […]

From the seabed, figures of an ancient cult

In 1972, in one of the early finds of marine archaeology, researchers discovered a trove of clay figurines on the seabed off the coast of Israel. The figurines — hundreds of them, accompanied by ceramic jars — were assumed to be the remains of a Phoenician shipwreck that had rested under the Mediterranean for 2,500 […]

‘Semi-Infinite’ Trove of Rare-Earth Metals Found in Japanese Seabed

‘Semi-Infinite’ Trove of Rare-Earth Metals Found in Japanese Seabed April 12th, 2018 Via: CNBC: Researchers have found hundreds of years’ worth of critical rare-earth metals beneath Japanese waters — enough to supply to the world on a “semi-infinite basis,” according to a study published […]

Deep-Seabed Mining is the Next Frontier in the Environmental Plunder of Planet Earth

Vic Bishop, Staff WriterWaking Times  Deep sea explorers continue to discover new forms of sea life in the depths of the world’s ocean, but our oceans are being pursued by mining companies as a huge potential market for minerals extraction. “The next frontier of mining is going to be in the ocean, because there’s […]

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