Tag: seabed
Environment: Study: Up to eleven million tons of garbage on the seabed
Environment Study: Up to eleven million tons of garbage on the ocean floor Plastic waste is a big problem in the oceans. photo © Mike_Nelson/epa/dpa Plastic bottles and shopping bags…
Antarctica: The world’s largest iceberg has broken away from the seabed and is drifting towards Africa
It is three times the size of New York: The iceberg called A23a has started moving again after more than three decades and is drifting comparatively quickly past the northern…
Protest against Norway’s plans to manage the seabed – Politics
If everything goes according to plan, Norway will soon be the first country in the world to commercially manage the seabed on a large scale: the government in Oslo voted…
Seabed: raw material store or habitat?
Corporations could soon start deep-sea mining – and destroy a unique ecosystem. On the way with the research ship “Sonne” to manganese nodules and sea cucumbers. source site
Submersible search: deep-sea robots on the seabed in action
Status: 06/22/2023 3:46 p.m Time is of the essence: the five people on board the Titan submersible are running out of oxygen. The rescuers’ hope rests on diving robots that…
“Titan”: Search teams discover debris on the seabed
Lost submersible “Titan” search: rescue teams find debris on the seabed – evaluation is ongoing The “Titan” submersible (right) disappeared during a “Titanic” expedition (archive image) ©Oceangate Expeditions/PA Media/DPA Will…
Council of the Baltic Sea wants to raise ammunition from the seabed – politics
Trust is important in international politics – that’s one of the lessons that Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has learned from breaking with all certainties and rules that Russia’s attack…
Seabed Authority: No agreement on how to deal with deep-sea mining
Seabed Authority No agreement on dealing with deep-sea mining Manganese nodules in the raw materials laboratory of a deep-sea research ship (archive image). There is interest in mining the nodules…
Seabed Authority: No agreement on how to deal with deep-sea mining
Seabed Authority No agreement on dealing with deep-sea mining Manganese nodules in a bowl in the raw materials laboratory of the deep-sea research ship “Sonne”. photo © Ingo Wagner/dpa Mining…
Towed gear, very effective but at what cost for the seabed?
Dredgers, bottom trawls, demersal seines… These fishing techniques all have one thing in common: the use of towed gear. Either nets – or equivalent – deposited on the seabed and…