Comments on: Nautilus Minerals: Mining PNG’s Seabed

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:15:39 +0000

To update you on this project and funding from Norway:

http://www.mediaglobal.org/article/2009-02-05/analysis-digging-in-neptunes-kingdom-the-first-deep-sea-mining-project

By: Levi

Levi — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:03:56 +0000

The land, the ocean and the sky are related. Disturbance of land is past and present hystory with disturbance of the ocean as the immediate future (what next, the sky too?). As much as it is a marvel in the advancement of technology in as far as deep sea ventures is concerned,It is hopeful that technology would be able to support and protect the biosphere’s equilebriums so as not to cause the sky to start weeping.

By: Maritime Monday 136

Maritime Monday 136 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:18:25 +0000

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By: Tavurvur

Tavurvur — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:26:19 +0000

It is amazing how technology keeps moving forward but I think its important to remember that technology WILL NOT and CAN’T solve all of mankind’s problems.

Here’s the question I ask myself:

With PNG’s past and present problems in regard to regulating mining on land – how will we ever be able to sufficiently protect the mining of our seas?

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:13:01 +0000

I guess the greatest fear is that it is a mining operation and there has never been a non polluting mining operation. So after all the pain that PNG went through with OK Tedi, I would think that people want to know exactly what sort of pollutants will come from these operations and how much damage and effects it will cause both in the short term and the long term.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:16:40 +0000

Very interesting post, it’s amazing how technology keeps moving forward. My grandfather founded a company, Deep Sea Ventures, in the 1960s, a short description of which I’ve pasted below. It’s from the 1998 program for the Moore Medal for Initiatives in Marine Mining.

Jack Flipse Deep Sea Ventures Inc., Industry Leader, Confrontationist, and Visionary In 1963, Jack Flipse , then a senior official at Newport News Shipbuilding Co., initiated a program, based on John Mero’s work, to develop a commercial operation to produce metals from deep seabed manganese nodules. He formed a new company, Deep Sea Ventures Inc., later the lead partner in Ocean Mining Associates (OMA), and carried out the first serious tests on the production and environmental effects of deep seabed mining, in 1966 on the Blake Plateau. This test was very successful and effectively put to rest the then current myth that mining the seabed at that depth would reawaken some long dormant species of sea creature which would at the very least envelop the mining vessel and all its crew with an impenetrable coaling of green slime. More than innovative, DSV was refreshingly open about the work they were doing, and the goals they had set. Mr. Flipse was always ready to argue his case publicly, and secrets were not a part of his company’s approach.