Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMEX), an ocean exploration pioneer engaged in the discovery, development, and extraction of strategic minerals that provide solutions to global challenges, ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

The State Department has already begun talks with the South Pacific nation for research on seabed mineral exploration and ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules." Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep ...

The United States has begun talks with the Cook Islands for research on seabed mineral exploration and development, the US ...

India is looking to secure supplies of critical minerals that are required in multiple industries, including the nation’s ...

CILAB, a South Korean company specializing in marine robots and smart autonomous systems, draws attention as it unveils a ...

Advancements in ocean exploration through the ages 1934: Engineer Otis Barton and naturalist William Beebe dive below 3,000 feet, a human first, in a vessel called a bathysphere off the coast of ...

In 2000, the ISA began issuing exploration contracts for national scientific agencies to begin surveying sections of the seabed even before the regulations for actual mining were written.

According to the ISA, the majority of companies looking into seabed exploration are focused on polymetallic nodules (19; with 17 of these focused on the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone), followed ...

The ocean comprises 70% of the planet and has a profound impact on all life on Earth. It regulates the global climate, ...

Terradepth and Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project have announced a partnership to utilize Terradepth's geospatial data portal Absolute Ocean ...