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ISA Opens Deep Dive Applications for Seabed Governance Training Program

Researchers investigated a remote area of seafloor in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean that was used as a test site for deep-sea mining by the Ocean Minerals Company in 1979. (Image credit: SMARTEX (Seabed Mining and Resilience To EXperimental Impact), National Oceanography Centre)

SMARTEX Study Finds 1979 Clarion-Clipperton Mining Scars Alter Seafloor Organics
During two expeditions on Ocean Exploration Trust’s Exploration Vessel Nautilus, autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was used to map and collect high-resolution imagery of the seafloor, like the image of polymetallic nodules on an abyssal plain seen here. The mapping and image data collected via Sentry serves to greatly expand the breadth of seafloor surveyed during a single expedition. (Image credit: Larry Mayer, UNH; AUV Sentry Team; Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

NOAA Ocean Exploration Completes Deep Seafloor Mapping of CNMI EEZ
Polymetallic nodules on the seafloor of the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ). (Image credit: National Oceanography Centre and the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, with acknowledgement to the NERC SMARTEX project)

Stepping Stone Reserves Could Connect CCZ Protected Areas Ahead of Deep-Sea Mining

Deep Sea Minerals Corp. Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Deep Sea Minerals Pursues US Listing and Public Offering to Fund CCZ Exploration
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ISA Workshop Yields Roadmap for Landlocked Nations on Seabed Governance
An abyssal sea cucumber moves across a field of polymetallic nodules in the abyssal plain of the Clarion Clipperton Zone. (Image credit: National Oceanography Centre and Trustees of the Natural History Museum, with acknowledgement to the NERC SMARTEX project)

NOC Study Links Deep-Sea Fauna to Polymetallic Nodule Exposure

NOAA Certifies American Metal’s Deep-Sea Mineral Exploration Licenses in the CCZ
MMA is offering two lease areas for bid in Lease Sale PACM-1 as identified in the map. (Image credit: Marine Minerals Administration)

MMA Releases Final Leasing Notice for Deep-Sea Minerals Sale Offshore American Samoa
The research vessel SONNE has set sail from San Diego into the Pacific. Its destination is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone near the equator, where the largest known seabed deposits of polymetallic nodules are located. (Image credit: Tim Kalvelage)

RV SONNE Expedition Targets Polymetallic Nodule Mining Impacts in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone
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