A Glorious Blue Dawn Awaits

A Glorious Blue Dawn Awaits

There's a ton of incredible shit going on in the oceans these days. Thanks to Aquanaut for collecting these links and tirelessly reposting them until someone came along to make a more permanent version of his post.

Minerals:

Chinese Underwater Mining Station

UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush

Japan breaks China's stranglehold on rare metals with sea-mud bonanza

Seacor Marine: ocean supply vessel company

Nautilus Minerals: seafloor gold and copper mining

Neptune Minerals: Sulfide mining

Energy:

Flexblue: underwater nuclear power plant

Chinese building huge Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plant

Mining methane hydrate off the coast of Japan

Farming:

In Hawaii

another story about the one in Hawaii

In the US

In South Australia

Commercial equipment for running your own ocean farm

The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change (The Atlantic)

Recreational:

Underwater hotel in Key Largo

Underwater restaurant and bar in Israel

Underwater Spa in the Maldives

"All Glass" Underwater Restaurant in the Maldives

Surface and Underwater Restaurant in the Maldives

Underwater Resort in Fiji

Undersea colonization:

Past

Present: 1 and 2

Future

Ocean surface colonization:

Blueseed

Seasteading

Scientific:

Hydronaut Deeplab - non-English site warning!

SeaOrbiter - research vessel with strong underwater focus

Aquarius underwater lab in Florida