Structure on the floor of the world’s oceans would be a common sight if only shoreside observers could readily look beneath the surface of the sea. There, they would see a submerged landscape that includes significant topographies of varied vertical profile, color, texture, stability, and biodiversity: Consider that for eons, natural geologic and biophysical forces have created features such as sea mounts, rocky outcrops, and coral reefs. Over millennia, humans have lost countless ships accidently; other debris from the land have washed into the ocean and settled on the bottom. And in more recent centuries, meanwhile, people have been intentional in introducing natural and human-made objects onto the seafloor to exploit, manage, or create an aspect, product or service of the ocean’s natural processes and resources.
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