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NATO to get mine-hunting underwater robot drones to solidify sea defense

Interesting Engineering 28 Aug 2024
It allows operators to remotely neutralize a sea mine while keeping humans out of the minefield ... The company states that K-ster can neutralize all kinds of mines deployed in the water- ranging from sea bottom, floating, to the new-age smart mines.
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Deep-sea mining

Dawn 09 Aug 2024
MINING in the deep sea has turned into a hot topic in the discourse on controlling planet-warming gases in the atmosphere ... Meanwhile, some countries, appear to be preparing for deep-sea mining in their jurisdictions.
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Russian ships are being taken out by mines covertly laid by Ukrainian sea drones: report

Business Insider 24 Jun 2024
Brig Gen Ivan Lukashevych, of Ukraine's SBU security service, described to the Journal the development of a specialized Sea Baby drone capable of laying Western-supplied bottom mines — small, 400-pound mines that sit under the sea bed.
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‘Dust clouds’ from deep-sea mining threatening marine ecosystems: Study

Interesting Engineering 16 May 2024
Deep-sea mining has led to the forming of “dust clouds” at the bottom of the ocean, severely impacting the clarity of the ocean and deep-sea life ... clouds’ emitted by deep-sea mining activities.
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Monitoring strategies of suspended matter after natural and deep-sea mining disturbances

Phys Dot Org 15 May 2024
"Dust clouds" at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the most part ... mining valuable metals from the bottom of the deep sea.
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Final dust settles slowly in the deep sea

Science Daily 15 May 2024
'Dust clouds' at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the biggest part. Yet, a small portion of the stirred-up bottom material remains visible in the water at long distances ... .
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Are EVs Truly the Greenest Form of Transportation?

Dissident Voice 09 Apr 2024
Sediments from mining are typically dumped back into the sea “which can harm filter-feeding species like corals and sponges.” The bottom of deep oceans are devoid of light and sound and typically do not have disturbances that stir up sediment.
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Can we protect and profit from the oceans?

Vox 18 Mar 2024
Though they sound like a kind of Yellowstone in the sea, they can perhaps be better thought of as “protected in name only,” as Vox’s Benji Jones put it last year, because commercial fishing, oil drilling, and mining will still happen in these areas.
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Scientists found a ‘lost’ deep sea mining site in U.S. waters. What secrets does it hold?

The Post and Courier 19 Feb 2024
The event underway on this Thursday in July 1970 marked the world’s first successful test of a system designed to mine the deep sea ... The Blake Plateau was a testing ground for the first successful experimental deep-sea mining operation.
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Scientists found a \u2018lost\u2019 deep-sea mining site off the SC coast. What secrets does it hold?

Aiken Standard 19 Feb 2024
The event underway on this Thursday in July 1970 marked the world’s first successful test of a system designed to mine the deep sea ... The Blake Plateau was a testing ground for the first successful experimental deep-sea mining operation.
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3 BEST Soviet movies about pirates

Russia Beyond 23 Jan 2024
But, at times, there were original stories in which Soviet seamen confronted sea bandits ... The props department prepared five dummy sea-bottom mines made of wood for the production, one of which ended up being carried out to sea in a gale.
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Coal mine collapse leaves seven injured, one missing

The Saigon Times 22 Dec 2023
... at a depth of 270 meters below sea level ... Coc Sau coal mine is the deepest in Quang Ninh, with its bottom 300 meters below sea level.
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The Houthi Threat to Red Sea Shipping, With Katherine Zimmerman

Council on Foreign Relations 05 Dec 2023
This week's topic is the Houthi threat to Red Sea shipping ... The Israelis actually struck it with a limpet mine, so a sea mine that they attached to the bottom of the ship, I think in 2017, and the Iranians simply replaced the vessel.
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Deep sea mining could cause undue harm to local jellyfish populations, study suggests

BGR 25 Nov 2023
Deep sea mining could pose a danger to local jellyfish populations, a new study suggests ... It’s a terrible revelation and one that will probably go unheeded by many companies too focused on the riches that deep sea mining could bring to the table.
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Russia "Dropping Explosives" in Black Sea Shipping Lanes

The Maritime Executive 01 Nov 2023
Last week, Operational Command South confirmed that Russian aircraft had “dropped four unidentified means of impact (probably bottom mines) in the Black Sea in the direction of navigation corridors of civil shipping.”.

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