Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting prospective mining sites

Re:Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting pros... by spraak on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @09:19PM (#17823754)

> Eager to cash in, companies have begun the process of sending machinery down to the bottom of the sea to set up mining operations.

What regulatory body would or does oversee that? That makes me really sad... so much of the earth destroyed, and now one of the last (if not the last?) untouched part of nature.

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Re:Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting pros... by fabricexpert on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:20AM (#17826594)

I understand the need to preserve - but what's the point of preserving an environment we'll never, ever see, touch or notice? If the trade off is that we slow economic growth and human prosperity, I'm not sure I'd take it. Of course if there are serious impacts (e.g. climate change or mass extinction of species) then we need to tread carefully.

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Re:Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting pros... by lentil_soup on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:51AM (#17825643)

Makes me very sad as well, the sea is probably one of the last places where humans haven't destroyed the local mega-fauna

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Re:Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting pros... by danparsonson on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:41AM (#17826363)

We're working on that though - many different species of pelagics are threatened by human activity :-/

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Re:Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting pros... by garmaine on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:00AM (#17824726)

https://www.isa.org.jm

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