Bahrain Sponsors Impossible Metals Deep Sea Mining Permit Application
;Seabed Authority, becoming the first Middle Eastern country to throw its support behind the fledgling industry as part of an economic diversification push.Privately-held Impossible Metals last Friday filed a 170-page application with the Jamaica-based ISA for a permit to mine part of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone that contains polymetallic nodules filled with manganese, copper, nickel and other building blocks of electric vehicles and electronics.Any country can allow mining in its territorial waters. The United Nations-backed ISA was authorized by a 1980s treaty to
Tsunami Waves Reach Hawaii Following Major Earthquake in Russia’s Far East
islands and Ecuador, while waves of 1-3 metres were possible in countries including Japan, Hawaii, Chile and the Solomon Islands, it said.Smaller waves were possible along coastlines across much of the Pacific, including the U.S. West Coast."Due to a massive earthquake that occurred in the Pacific Ocean, a Tsunami Warning is in effect for those living in Hawaii," U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post."A Tsunami Watch is in effect for Alaska and the Pacific Coast of the United States."'Ring Of Fire'Several people in Kamchatka sought medical assistance
Seabed Mining: Defining Serious Harm
mining operations.The project was commissioned by The Metals Company Australia (TMC) and brought together scientists from CSIRO, Griffith University, Museums Victoria, the University of the Sunshine Coast and Earth Sciences New Zealand.The research focused on the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Pacific Ocean – a region being considered for potential mining of polymetallic nodules containing critical minerals such as cobalt and nickel.The scientists analyzed data from test mining activities that were carried out in the CCZ by TMC under approval by the International Seabed Authority (ISA).A key
Mother Ship with USV Flotilla Could Boost Coast Guard Capabilities
Gallup of the US Naval Postgraduate School, highlight the relatively lower costs that would be involved compared to building and crewing traditional coast guard ships.A U.S. Navy version is armed and intended to protect the sea lanes of communication (trading routes) in the island chains of the Pacific Ocean. This warship concept is called the Lightly Manned Automated Combat Capability (LMACC).These needs point to the inability of many countries to build government vessels quickly. The current Canadian flagship icebreaker, the Louis S. St-Laurent, sailed her maiden Arctic voyage in 1969 (56 years
NOAA: Operational Forecast System Informs Shipwreck Oil Spill Scenarios
and sank off the coast of Cape Flattery, Washington. Resting almost 500 feet below the surface, the Coast Trader has an estimated 542 tons of heavy fuel oil remaining in the fuel tanks. The quantity onboard the Coast Trader is equivalent to 60% of the volume of fuel spilled into the Pacific Ocean near Grays Harbor by the barge Nestucca in 1988, which remains one of Washington’s largest and most damaging oil spills.In collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) began a comprehensive assessment of potential
A New Approach to Studying the Air-Sea Flux
interactions that occur at the air-sea flux requires simultaneous measurement of multiple in-situ co-located variables at a level of accuracy not provided by satellites or numerical models.This is something USVs are good at, but currently there are large gaps in USV monitoring including in the Pacific Ocean and high latitudes. Additionally, USVs have not yet been active in the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic.Even where USV manufacturers, universities and research institutions have pioneered ground-breaking USV capabilities, the data has been siloed within individual projects, say the researchers
OPT Sends Off WAM-V USV for Indo-Pacific Operations
with 24/7 operational payloads for multiple days without requiring a return to base.This unit recently completed demonstration, conducting a three day fully remote, continuous survey operation, while deploying a simulated survey payload."This is a great milestone for OPT. The vastness of the Pacific Ocean makes this an important capability for our customers.“This design enables the WAM-V to conduct prolonged operations inclusive of survey, maritime security, and/or environmental research with a complex array of above and below the waterline sensing capability,” said Philipp Stratmann
First Deep-Sea Mining Company Asks Trump for International Permit
shore, and companies are already lining up to mine U.S. waters.Vancouver-based The Metals Co asked the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a commercial recovery permit under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act of 1980 to operate in part of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.The application was timed to coincide with a Tuesday hearing on deep-sea mining by a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee at which Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Co, testified."America has an urgent need for critical
Trump Order Fast Tracks Subsea Mining
.S. access to nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy.The order, which Trump signed in private, seeks to jumpstart the mining of both U.S. and international waters as part of a push to offset China's sweeping control of the critical minerals industry.Parts of the Pacific Ocean and elsewhere are estimated to contain large amounts of potato-shaped rocks known as polymetallic nodules filled with the building blocks for electric vehicles and electronics.More than 1 billion metric tons of those nodules are estimated to be in U.S. waters and filled with manganese, nickel
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