Finding and disposing of underwater mines on the sea floor is one of the US Navy's hardest and most dangerous tasks. Robots ...

With an estimated $150 trillion in gold under our oceans, or nine pounds of gold for every ... The Solwara I project off Papua New Guinea could soon become the first active commercial deep-sea mine — ...

Assembled from a variety of separate systems, the MCM package stitches the components together, using the combinations of helicopter-borne and remote systems to find and neutralize sea mines from ...

Several countries united with campaign groups on Monday to call for caution in regulating the divisive practice of deep-sea ...

After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in international waters begins Monday in Jamaica, with hopes high for adoption this ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

Facing an aggressive China that is willing to use force to achieve the unification it has sought for decades, Taiwan needs ...

Limpet mines are named after the disk-shaped sea snail that clamps onto rocks ... by the army just weeks ago after nearly two years under the control of paramilitary fighters, Red Crescent ...

Limpet Mines Likely Caused Blasts on Two Tankers in Mediterranean Sea, Sources Say By Renee Maltezou, Yannis Souliotis and Jonathan Saul ATHENS (Reuters) - Mines attached to the hulls of ships and ...