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Ocean Mining: Time to Swarm the Deep?

Present-day ocean mining technologies center around the deployment of seabed crawlers engineered to harvest polymetallic nodules found at depths of over 4,000 min the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ). While most of the tried-and-tested hardware is borrowed straight out of the offshore oil and gas toolkit, there are escalating concerns that these seafloor extraction methods will trigger irreparable damage todeep-sea biodiversity.

Ocean Mining: Time to Swarm the Deep?

The Advent of Commercial ASVs

Marine environments are notoriously difficult to study. It’s only within the last few decades that technology has enabled any systematic and scientific exploration of what lies beneath.

Nexans’ Aurora: Cable Layer Sets New Standards

The submarine cable market is booming. Every segment of the market, from offshore wind to interconnectors to fiber optics, has experienced strong growth for several years and are seeing some of the strongestlevels of deployments in their history.

SWORD: Groundbreaking Technology for New Frontiers

The exploration of new frontiers calls for groundbreaking innovation. This is particularly true when it comes to the application of offshore technology engineered to meet the future challenges of the oil & gas, renewable energy, telecoms, marine mining and trenching industries.

OCEAN MINING: Lessons from the Past

ON&T recently caught up with Ted Brockett, one of the pioneers of seabed mining technology, to take a look back at the early days of ocean exploration.

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