Deep Ocean Mission

  • IASbaba
  • February 4, 2023
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In News: In the Union Budget 2023-24, Deep Ocean Mission has been allocated Rs 600 crore

Deep Ocean Mission:

  • It aims to explore marine biodiversity for the sustainable use of resources
  • It is overseen by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
  • It includes myriad of activities such as a manned submersible, ship-building, exploration and conservation of deep-sea biodiversity and identification of mineral deposits in the deep ocean
  • A manned submersible will be developed to carry three people to a depth of 6,000 metres in the ocean
  • In 2016, India was awarded a 15-year contract to explore an area of 75,000 square kilometres for mining polymetallic nodules from the Central Indian Ocean Basin at depths of 5,000-6,000 metres.
  • The other components of the mission include developing ocean climate change advisory services and designing offshore Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) powered desalination plants.

Significance

  • Oceans are storehouses of food, energy, minerals, and medicines.
  • It also modulates weather and climate.
  • Deep-sea mining involves extracting ores rich in cobalt, manganese, zinc and other rare metals from the sea floor.
  • They contain critical minerals needed to build batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy capacity, smartphones and laptops.

Source: DTE

 

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