I built an interactive 3D map of every deep-sea mining concession + hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and real-time Argo float data

The International Seabed Authority has granted exploration and exploitation contracts across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. There's no easy way to visualise where they are, how they overlap with ecosystems, or how plumes from mining would drift.

So I mapped it: https://something-rare.com

Every ISA contract plotted (with contractor, date, area)

721 known hydrothermal vent fields overlaid

19,617 seamounts

Real-time Argo float positions (ocean current data)

Sediment plume drift modelling from Copernicus data

All open source. Happy to answer questions.