For Deep Ocean Mining, Questions Abound
![2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas Ferromanganese crusts draping rocks (and even old sponge stalks) on Dive 17 at Fryer Guyot.](https://ndsf.whoi.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2022/09/oceanminerals-1094x613-1.jpg)
ROV Jason is helping researchers get their arms around the question of what damage seafloor mining might do to little-studied deep-ocean ecosystems. Learn more in this podcast from Undark magazine.
ROV Jason is helping researchers get their arms around the question of what damage seafloor mining might do to little-studied deep-ocean ecosystems. Learn more in this podcast from Undark magazine.