Can Science Keep Deep Sea Miners From Ruining the Seafloor?
Can Science Keep Deep Sea Miners From Ruining the Seafloor?
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 20, 20178m 55s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dovetail.prxu.org) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Ocean explorers and entrepreneurs have been thinking about how to scoop up mineral-laden deposits on the seafloor since the HMS Challenger dragged a few up in a bucket during its globe-trotting scientific voyage in the 1870s. A century later, the CIA used deep sea mining as a cover story for a secretive plan to recover a sunken Russian nuclear sub. Now, it’s a serious engineering proposition.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices