The proposal would expand the ban on bottom trawling from 18,000km2 to 48,000km2 (around 18,500 sq miles) of the UK's offshore areas that are already designated as protected.

It’s often referred to as the “sea cow” because of its grazing behavior on the ocean floor. Dugongs can live up to 70 years, and females only give birth every 3–7 years.

The impact of bottom trawling Enric Sala —a National Geographic Explorer and co-producer of Ocean with David Attenborough —has long studied the impacts of these fishing techniques.

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The Floors of the Ocean, 1959 Thanks to Tharp’s hand-drawn renditions of the ocean floor, I can imagine a walk across the Atlantic Ocean bottom from New York City to Lisbon. The journey would take me ...

Vescovo said you can’t really find them on the ocean floor. “So deep-sea mining is an extremely difficult solution to a battery metal problem that existed 10 years ago,” he said.

Video released by the U.S. Coast Guard during hearings on the Titan submersible tragedy that killed five show the vessel's remains on the Atlantic Ocean floor.

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Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO at Terradepth, a startup that is working to both map more of the ocean floor while also building a platform to make that data more accessible and easy to use.

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