{"id":168756,"date":"2023-07-31T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/james-cameron-says-deep-sea-mining-is-safer-than-getting-in-an-elevator"},"modified":"2023-07-31T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:26:05","slug":"james-cameron-says-deep-sea-mining-is-safer-than-getting-in-an-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/james-cameron-says-deep-sea-mining-is-safer-than-getting-in-an-elevator","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron says deep-sea mining is safer than getting in an elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-cameron-says-deep-sea-mining-is-safer-than-getting-in-an-elevator2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His comments come a month after a submersible imploded killing all five passengers on board.<\/p>\n<p>Titanic Director James Cameron, who has completed over 75 deep-sea dives, has strongly supported deep-sea mining. This controversial activity involves extracting valuable materials beyond 200 meters of seawater.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a significant concern among a growing number of nations. Even the global regulatory body on deep-sea extraction, International Seabed Authority (ISA), met in Jamaica to negotiate and formulate rules for the activity. But in what came as a relief to the environmentalists, ISA\u2019s discussions ended with a big no to industrial-scale mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His comments come a month after a submersible imploded killing all five passengers on board. Titanic Director James Cameron, who has completed over 75 deep-sea dives, has strongly supported deep-sea mining. This controversial activity involves extracting valuable materials beyond 200 meters of seawater. It\u2019s a significant concern among a growing number of nations. Even the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}