Ballard’s hunt for Earhart’s wrecked plane, sink or swim for deep-sea mining, prints of whales, and more! Monday Morning Salvage, August 19, 2019.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

BEN (Bathymetric Explorer and Navigator) was made for the University of New Hampshire by marine autonomy tech company ASV Global(Credit: University of New Hampshire)

Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)

My Deep-sea Mining trade journal is on hiatus this month, so you get a super dose of the deep-sea mining beat!

There’s other stuff going on in the ocean, too.

The Gam (ocean podcasts we love)

Lagan (what we’re reading from the peer-reviewed literature)

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