by Challenger | Jul 4, 2025 | Our Ocean in Crisis
Nations stand against deep sea mining On 24 April 2025, in defiance of the UN, President Trump ordered the US National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration to fast-track permits to strip-mine rare metals from the deep Ocean floor. Yet, following the UN’s Ocean summit...
by Challenger | Oct 31, 2023 | Remembered Lives
Remembered Lives 1: Meet the Challenger Crew For all its scientific achievements, accounts of the Challenger expedition (1872-76) still speak of the ‘anonymity’ and ‘unheard voices’ of the 200-odd crew who drove the ship along. Controversially, even the Report of the...
by Challenger | Oct 3, 2023 | Remembered Live 2
Remembered Lives 2: The Brave and Hardy Challenger Crew Nearly half (45%) of the seamen who set out from Portsmouth on 21 December 1872 did not complete the voyage: they deserted, were hospitalised or invalided, while others died, were transferred or discharged for...
by Challenger | Nov 23, 2022 | Our Ocean in Crisis
Deep sea mining imperils ‘our greatest ally’, the Ocean Nov 21, 2022 By Philip Pearson Mining companies are negotiating controversial permits from the UN’s International Seabed Authority (ISA) to strip mine metallic nodules on the deep Ocean floor for the copper,...
by Challenger | Oct 23, 2022 | Our Ocean in Crisis
Today: Rising ocean temperatures Nov 21, 2022 By Philip Pearson ‘How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.’ This quote, beloved of oceanographers and others who care about the sea, comes from science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke....
