Over 1 1000000 foursquare kilometers of the world's oceans bring received claims for deep sea mining. Mining inward the Earth's oceans tin endure rattling destructive of fragile marine ecosystems too tin Pb to the loss of unique species too sensitive deep sea habitats.
Deep Sea Mining Watch is a global map showing where these mining claims are known to bring been made. The map likewise shows the GPS tracks of ships that are believed to endure prospecting for minerals for deep sea mining. If y'all direct a deep sea mining vessel on the map y'all tin stance its GPS rail too acquire to a greater extent than most who the transportation belongs to too where too what it is prospecting for.
The Deep Sea Mining Watch map likewise contains full general information on how deep seabed mining is carried out too the resultant it tin bring on biodiversity too deep sea ecosystems.
The map itself includes bathymetry information from Natural Earth. Natural Earth's bathymetry information is costless to purpose inward whatever project. You tin thence download the information yourself for purpose inward your ain interactive maps.
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