In reading the article, "Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea", my eyes were completely opened to the truth about the impacts humans have on the deep sea. Personally, I didn't think we could ever harm the deep sea by the choices that we were making. I thought it was too far away too
"deep" to suffer the consequences of our selfish needs. I was completely wrong. In the article, by Ramirez - Llodra, Llodra brings up the main impacts humans have. Including: littering, fishing, mining, oil and gas exploration, ocean acidification, climate change, and deoxygenation.
Through my research I found that the main ways that the deep seas are being impacted by humans are through
Littering: Plastics, fishing gear, and sewage that are being thrown into the ocean illegally purposely and not purposely.
Mining: Creates a lot of pollution, harms sensitive deep sea environment
Fishing: Effects of this are overharvesting which could lead to extinction.
Llodra left out a very important part, and that is a solution. I found to stop the amount of oil and gas that leaks into the ocean. We can do this by creating a hybrid boat that uses half energy and half gas. Another solution is instead of dumping the waste from mining we can use this waste in a more efficient way or we can make a tool that does not catch any of the waste. Either way something needs to be done.
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