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By Andrew Krosofsky

Jan. 5 2021, Published 12:29 p.m. ET

For most of human history, humankind had looked up at the sky and wondered what was out there. And it wasn't until less than a century ago that we finally got a realistic glimpse of it. Yet while scientists take pictures of black holes and send rovers to long-dead planets, one of the last unknown frontiers remains largely unexplored. Water covers more than 70 percent of the globe, and so much of the ocean is still unexplored. This persistent mystery may leave you wondering, what is the deepest part of the ocean? And what creatures dwell in those uncharted inky depths?

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How much of the ocean is unexplored?

According to Oceana, more than 80 percent of the ocean still remains unexplored. It might seem a rather large number, considering that humankind has explored and settled in every other corner of the globe and beyond, but the deepest parts of the ocean are largely inaccessible by we who breathe oxygen to survive. And while oxygen is the main reason for our inability to reach these uncharted corners of the map, it is not the only one.

What is the deepest part of the ocean?

What lives in the deepest part of the ocean?

Some, including the giant tube worm, live near hydrothermal vents and feed on tiny bacteria that get their energy directly from the chemicals in the water. The water around these vents may be boiling but it's rich in minerals and chemicals that the creatures who have evolved to live there need to survive. The tube worms can also grow to be over eight feet tall. And they are just one of the remarkable animals that survive in these inhospitable places.

Why is it so difficult to explore the deep ocean?

According to NASA oceanographer Dr. Gene Feldman, the hardest part of exploring the oceans is due to physics. At those great depths, the zero visibility, extremely cold t emperatures, and crushing pressure are a lethal combination for even the bravest and most well-equipped explorers. Feldman is even quoted as saying:

"In some ways, it's a lot easier to send people into space than it is to send people to the bottom of the ocean... The intense pressures in the deep ocean make it an extremely difficult environment to explore."

Underwater vehicles are also prohibitively expensive to build and to buy. They must be able to survive the high pressure and the cold, and so must their occupants. Not only that, the cameras, sonar, and delicate computer equipment that they usually carry needs to have similar durability. As a result, only a small portion of the Earth's oceans have been explored. According to NOAA, only about 35 percent of the ocean and coastal waters of the U.S. have been mapped using modern methods of sonar.

Are the deep oceans in danger?

Unfortunately, this largely unexplored series of biomes has also proven to be the most susceptible to things like pollution, plastics, overfishing, climate change, and many more human-created environmental issues. This is where that lack of knowledge presents us with some problems. It is notoriously difficult to protect what we do not understand. Thus, only about 7 percent of the world's oceans are designated as marine protected areas. That is according to the U.N. World Database on Protected Areas.

That means that the other 93 percent might be just as in peril - we just don't know enough about it to recognize the danger. Like all oceans though, these deep places undoubtedly need our help. Our actions have affected every other environment on Earth in a negative way, so it stands to reason that even these unexplored places are in danger. We must preserve them and we must protect them, but meanwhile, scientists will continue to try and understand them.

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What Is the Deepest Part of the Ocean? So Much Is Still Unexplored

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By Andrew Krosofsky Jan. 5 2021, Published 12:29 p.m. ET For most of human history, humankind had looked up at the sky and wondered what was out there. And it wasn't until less than a century ago that we finally got a realistic glimpse of it.

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This Incredible Animation Shows How Deep The Ocean Really Is

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Some of this gap is being addressed, in a lengthy process to negotiate a new International Legally Binding Instrument under UNCLOS on BBNJ. The instrument will regulate four areas:

1. Marine genetic resources, including issues of access and benefit sharing

2. Area-based management tools, including marine protected areas

3. Environmental impact assessments, and

4. Capacity building and transfer of marine technology.

Put simply, new rules are being drafted, and inevitably they'll reflect the viewpoints of those doing the writing. So, given the vast scale of ocean resources, shouldn't everyone have a say?

Not everyone recognises the opportunity, nor the urgency. Essam Yassin Mohammed, head of blue economy at IIED, explains: "The biggest challenge is to get developing countries to engage with the high seas. Developing countries that are not currently using international waters tend to say 'isn't it too remote to matter? Why should we get involved?'"

There are two pressing reasons. One is the interconnected nature of the oceans, which means even countries remote from the high seas will feel the effects of ocean exploitation.

The other is justice for all. For example, vessels from ten rich nations, including Japan, Korea, and Spain, take 71% of fishing catches from the high seas. And of all the patents on marine genetic materials, 98% are held by only 10 rich countries. Will they be keen to share when other countries develop oceanic fleets and industries? Some countries are arguing fish stocks should be excluded from rules on marine genetic resources, giving a hint of what might be ahead.
A common heritage?
IIED firmly believes that marine genetic resources of the high seas should be recognised as a Common Heritage of Mankind - as established for the seabed.

This case has to be put in careful legal terms, and IIED's recent briefing sets out the argument. In summary: recent international case law, the growing recognition that environments can only be kept healthy by taking an integrated 'ecosystem approach' (as internationally recognised through the Convention on Biological Diversity), proposals to designate key high seas areas as World Natural Heritage Sites under the World Heritage Convention, the preamble to UNCLOS, and even the international 'Human Right to Science', all support the argument for declaring marine genetic resources to be a 'common heritage'.

But there's a way to go: it's not yet an argument that's universally acknowledged or represented in law, as Anca Leroy, lawyer and policy advisor to the French government, explains in her own capacity: "I make a distinction between the ocean as an ecosystem and the common heritage applying to mineral resources, and the request of developing countries for marine genetic resources. If States wanted to apply common heritage of mankind to marine genetic resources this would have been possible but would have implied the modification of UNCLOS, which would have not been acceptable for all Parties to UNCLOS.

"Current UNCLOS provisions (part XI) on common heritage apply only to sea bed minerals, not to marine genetic resources, and the mandate of negotiation given by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 to develop a new treaty does not contain such a modification provision. Therefore the future BBNJ agreement cannot modify existing UNCLOS provisions."
Connections, protections, and fluidity
Connections

Whoever governs them, the global ocean and inshore waters are far more interconnected than many realise. Ekaterina Popova, an ocean modeller at the UK's National Oceanography Centre, said: "Ecologically, [the high seas] are very much connected to coastal zones. There are two pieces of evidence for this. One is the migratory nature of species, often migrating through corridors between the high seas and coastal waters. The other is ocean currents. People don't realise how fast and vigorous these are, and how tightly they connect to coastal waters. If you released a million yellow rubber ducks into the high seas, they'd start turning up in coastal waters within six months."

Many coastal regions will be connected to the high seas, even if that connection is to distant areas far from land. (Conversely, complex interactions between prevailing winds, directional currents at the surface and at depth, and varying timescales, mean being close to the high seas doesn't always translate into a strong connection.)

Fiscal reforms: rebalancing the money tools

Global ocean governance isn't the only thing that needs rethinking to make it more inclusive. Fiscal tools - the subsidies, taxes, tariffs, fees and penalties policymakers use to try to direct the economy - need change.Although over 80% of the world's fisheries are already fully or overexploited, many governments allocate capacity-enhancing subsidies to the industrialised fishing sector. In contrast, very little has been done to use fiscal tools for good - to support sustainability and environmental stewardship. And even less has been done to ensure subsidies don't unfairly disadvantage vulnerable communities.Small-scale fisheries, which need to be part of the global ocean governance conversation, should be part of a national policy conversation too. If we're going to hunt down harmful subsidies, we should be looking for those that hurt human societies as well as those that damage our environment.
Tools for change
So what if we could end harmful subsidies, reward innovation and sustainability, build government capacity to collect tax, and channel resources to distribute benefits more fairly?

IIED is researching these ideas. Fiscal tools can work either for or against the environment, and we've been specifically exploring how fiscal policy can help achieve SDG14. Three big fiscal instruments: taxes, conditional transfers/payments for ecosystem services and subsidies could all play a role.

An illustration from the 'Towards an inclusive blue economy' event hosted by IIED summing up discussions on what fiscal tools can make fisheries work for the environment and people, and how data can help us to understand the value of small-scale fisheries to national economies.

Small-scale fisheries? Actually, they're huge

These arguments to include local voices in discussions all the way up from small-scale habitat management to international ocean governance aren't only based on equity. As Brayne puts it, "We say 'small-scale fishers', but this sector isn't small at all - it's huge."

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Action For An Ocean For All | FundingtheOcean.org

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Some of this gap is being addressed, in a lengthy process to negotiate a new International Legally Binding Instrument under UNCLOS on BBNJ. The instrument will regulate four areas: Marine genetic resources, including issues of access and benefit sharing Area-based management tools, including marine protected areas Environmental impact assessments, and Capacity building and transfer of marine technology.

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In conclusion we should spend are valuable resources on exploring the oceans dheps and with the evdince we should do more for the oceans since now we know that the more than 80% of the ocean has been unexplored that's why we should spend are valuable resources on the exploring the ocean  more so people can find new things and new spieces