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Drifting Naval Mine Damages Resort Complex Near Odesa

The Maritime Executive 27 Mar 2023
It is the latest in a series of drifting sea mine incidents caused by a combination of rough winter weather and large-scale employment of bottom-fixed mines in the northwestern Black Sea ... ???? A Russian sea mine exploded near Odessa during a storm.
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Seymour Hersh makes new Nord Stream sabotage claim

The Liberty Beacon 26 Mar 2023
The initial purpose of mining Nord Stream 1 and 2, ... We will bring an end to it.” According to Hersh, the US leader decided to order the detonation of mines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea last September because the conflict “wasn’t going great in Ukraine” from a US perspective.
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Seymour Hersh makes claim over reasons for Nord Stream sabotage

Russia Today 24 Mar 2023
The initial purpose of mining Nord Stream 1 and 2, built to ... According to Hersh, the US leader decided to order the detonation of mines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea last September because the conflict “wasn’t going great in Ukraine” from a US perspective.
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Croatian authorities destroy World War II anti-ship mine

Stars and Stripes 19 Mar 2023
... a huge anti-ship mine from World War II that was buried in the seabed near a key northern Adriatic Sea port ... Videos released by Croatian police after the operation was completed on Sunday showed the mine at the bottom of the sea, and divers strapping it up so it could be moved.
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Croatian authorities destroy Second World War anti-ship mine

Canoe 19 Mar 2023
ZAGREB, CroatiaCroatian authorities on Sunday destroyed a huge anti-ship mine from the Second World War that was buried in the seabed near a key northern Adriatic Sea port ... Videos released by Croatian police after the operation was completed on Sunday showed the mine at the bottom of the sea, and divers strapping it up so it could be moved.
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Russian pilots who forced US drone to crash near Ukraine to be honored with state awards

Stars and Stripes 17 Mar 2023
drone over the Black Sea this week and caused it to crash into waters near Ukraine will receive military awards for their actions, a top Russian official said Friday ... Air Force officials had to let it crash into the Black Sea ... Milley said the unmanned aircraft is likely at the bottom of the Black Sea in many pieces.
photo: USGS / Patrick Kelley, U.S. Coast Guard
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High Seas Treaty: What does it mean for business?

GreenBiz 09 Mar 2023
But at the same time the oceans are the backdrop to globally significant economic activity, ranging from fisheries to shipping routes, as well as emerging sectors such as deep sea mining and carbon removal projects ... mining sector. "Deep sea mining shouldn't happen anyway," he said.
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The deep sea must be protected, not plundered

The Hill 02 Mar 2023
In a typical mining operation, a ... First, ocean sediments store the equivalent of over 7,000 Gigatons of climate warming carbon dioxide, nearly twice the amount of terrestrial soils. Bottom trawling and deep-sea mining disturb this immense carbon sink.
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Leaked video footage of ocean pollution shines light on deep-sea mining

The Observer 06 Feb 2023
Video footage from a deep-sea mining test, showing sediment discharging into the ocean, has raised fresh questions about the largely untested nature of the industry, and the possible harms it could do to ecosystems as companies push to begin full-scale exploration of the ocean floor as early as this year.
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Homeowners grapple with double hurricane whammy

The Salem News 13 Dec 2022
WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla ... The next storm could send it crashing into the ocean, just like some of her neighbors' homes in Wilbur-by-the-Sea ... Wilbur-by-the-Sea residents aren't ready to retreat ... It must be either trucked in from inland mines or dredged from the bottom of the sea.
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5 things the Brits DISCOVERED from the Russians

Beijing News 12 Dec 2022
Anchored to the bottom of the sea, they were connected to the shore with a cable ... The Russian Imperial Navy became the first fleet in world military history to use sea mines not sporadically, but as an element of a planned naval strategy.
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Not ‘enough money to save them all.’ Fla. county grapples with double hurricane whammy

Finger Lakes Times 12 Dec 2022
WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla ... The next storm could send it crashing into the ocean, just like some of her neighbors’ homes in Wilbur-by-the-Sea ... Wilbur-by-the-Sea residents aren’t ready to retreat ... It must be either trucked in from inland mines or dredged from the bottom of the sea.
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Not ‘enough money to save them all.’ Volusia grapples with double hurricane whammy

Orlando Sentinel 08 Dec 2022
WILBUR-BY-THE-SEAKate Rose stays awake at night thinking about her family’s oceanfront home perched perilously on the edge of the eroded shoreline. The next storm could send it crashing into the ocean, just like some of her neighbors’ homes in Wilbur-by-the-Sea ... It must be either trucked in from inland mines or dredged from the bottom of the sea.
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The controversial push to mine the deep sea

Al Jazeera 02 Dec 2022
But electric cars aren’t an environmental silver bullet ... One potential – and controversial – source for those metals is the deep sea. In this episode, we look at the minerals on the bottom of the ocean floor and the environmental costs of mining them ... .
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Finnish seismologists detect five blasts in Russian waters

FX Empire 25 Oct 2022
... the Baltic Sea last week, the Helsinki University Institute of Seismology said on Tuesday ... The institute did not know what had caused the blasts but that similar disturbances had been detected during previous naval drills and sweeping of old mines from the sea bottom, Tiira said.

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