Seabed in a sentence

It establishes an International Seabed Authority (ISA) to authorize seabed exploration and mining and collect and distribute the seabed mining royalty.

World map showing areas of seabed mining exploration licenses issued by the International Seabed Authority.

The Crown Estate, which acts as manager of the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland said that four broad areas of seabed would be made available to the market.

Overlaps between the two groups were resolved, but a decline in the demand for minerals from the seabed made the seabed regime significantly less relevant.

A luxury cruise ship carrying more than 200 people — primarily Australians — is stuck in remote northeastern Greenland after two failed attempts to free it from the muddy seabed.

Around 30 countries, including Nauru, were granted exploration contracts by the UN agency that governs deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority, in 2011.

Building a harbor, for example, churns up the seabed and has the same effect.

That long-term storage, or preservation, of organic carbon on the seabed limited the release of carbon dioxide.

The contraband parcel containing 11.6 kg of foreign origin gold valued at Rs 7.13 crore was retrieved from the seabed with the help of the Coast Guard expert drivers and the same was seized along with the boat used for smuggling,” the statement said.

The deep seabed covers roughly two-thirds of the total seafloor.

The DoE detailed the severe detrimental environmental impacts of the proposed project on healthy mangroves and the seabed.

The ISA has a dual mandate under its charter as mining regulator and custodian of the seabed environment, fueling accusations from some environmentalists that it is too close to the mining industry.

The noises that were heard give us hope the submarine is on the seabed and that people are still alive, but other scenarios are possible," Lefort said.

The quake happened at 15:55 p.m. local time with its epicenter located 37 km southeast of the Melonguane sub-district of Talaud Island and a depth of 11 km under the seabed, according to the agency.

Therefore eruption could be on the seabed.

We’ve just learned that Scotland is expected to lose an estimated £60 billion through mishandling of the much-criticised ScotWind deal, which saw tracts of the seabed leased to investors.

A chilling 3D reconstruction of the Titan's final journey was released by the US Coast Guard, depicting its final movements, after new footage of the wreckage on the seabed was also revealed, taken days after the tragedy unfolded.

Assessing marine areas from the perspective of a predator, rather than from a more traditional anthropocentric perspective, can improve scientists' understanding of benthic environments and develop more comprehensive maps of the seabed.

Deep seabed mining presents a number of financial challenges.

He said they wanted to see how this was affecting the shape of the seabed and the life which inhabits it.