Oil & Fish
The raison d'être for Aberdeen is the North Sea which adds an immense backdrop of…
EmbassyApril 18, 2023
China Moves Towards the Era of Deep-Sea Space Stations
Similarly, an integrated research platform or integrated laboratory in the deep sea for the exploration…
EmbassyApril 5, 2023
Fathoming the Scale of Extraction
They estimate that 78.8 million tonnes (mt) of ‘wild caught’ fish were hauled from the…
EmbassyApril 4, 2023
Deep seabed mining: a poster industry for blue capitalism
Corporations and their state sponsors are gearing up to mine manganese nodule fields in a…
EmbassyApril 3, 2023
How to enter the ocean
It is a seemingly easy proposition with an obvious response: jump or dive in. However,…
EmbassyApril 3, 2023
Extractivism’s Unseen & Unaccounted for Extractions
1. Ocean Movement as Bycatch A speculative adventure that imagines the ocean's shifting energetic qualities…
EmbassyApril 2, 2023
The Shark Scout (Fiction Excerpt)
“Look, what’s here?” Sasha bent down and almost pressed his eyes to it before he…
EmbassyMarch 27, 2023
Ocean Semiotics 3
How might we unground and up-root dominant, terrestrial biases to better evoke more-than-human marine natures,…
EmbassyMarch 22, 2023
Ocean Semiotics 2
Turbulent geo-political conflicts between powerful, rich nations of the north and those of the economic…
EmbassyMarch 21, 2023
Combustible Ice Sets off Global Battle for Seabed Resources
…On June 27th, 2012, the manned submersible Jiaolong once again set a new “Chinese depth”…
EmbassyMarch 21, 2023