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This is an eel trap that has been modified to better catch deep sea fauna. Life on the Edge 2005 Expedition. Deep-sea exploration is the investigation of physical, chemical, and biological conditions on the ocean waters and sea bed beyond the continental shelf, for scientific or commercial purposes.
India was the first country in the world, to have sponsored the exploration of deep sea mineral viz polymetallic nodules, in the central Indian Ocean basin in 1987. In 2002, India signed a contract with the ISA and after complete resource analysis of the seabed 50% was surrendered and the country retained an area of 75,000 km 2.
It was intended as the experimental phase of the project, and, by developing and employing dynamic positioning of ships during drilling, [15] succeeded in drilling to a depth of 183 m (601 feet) below the sea floor. [2] While Project Mohole was not successful, the idea led to projects such as NSF's Deep Sea Drilling Project, [2] and attempts to ...
Known as Dean’s Blue Hole, this geological wonder located off the coast of Long Island is a staggering 663 feet deep, making it one of the deepest blue holes in the world and also an area ripe ...
If deep-sea mining follows the same trajectory as offshore oil production, more than one-third of these critical metals will come from deep-ocean mines by 2065, the federal agency estimated.
IODP began in 2013 and builds on the research of four previous scientific ocean drilling programs: Project Mohole, Deep Sea Drilling Project, Ocean Drilling Program, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. [1] [2] Together, these programs represent the longest running and most successful international Earth science collaboration. [3] [4]
A year after the OceanGate submersible disaster, the company's co-founder is planning another excursion into the deep blue, this time into a "virtually unexplored" sinkhole.
An abyssal sea star Benthopecten sp. observed in 2014. From August through October 2014, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer will explore the largely unknown deep-sea ecosystems of the U.S. Atlantic coast. Our at-sea and shore-based science team will collect baseline data in the Atlantic submarine canyons and along the New England Seamount Chain.