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Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining

MIT Tech Review · Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is currently on a mission to map more than 8,000 square nautical miles of the Pacific seafloor in search of critical mineral deposits. But it isn’t

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