Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor

How underwater mediation has transformed deep-sea spaces into resource-rich frontiers

Green energy technologies such as windmills, solar panels, and electric vehicles may soon depend on material found at the seabed. How did a space once imagined to be empty and unfathomable come to be thought of as a treasure trove of resources? Lisa Yin Han traces how contemporary developments in underwater sensing and imaging materially and imaginatively transmogrify the ocean bottom into a resource fron...