Literature Review – Is Deep Sea Mining a viable option?

The ocean seabeds all around the globe offer up a rich and plentiful supply of untapped mineral resources.  The extraction of these resources could go some way towards easing the pressure of dwindling supplies of minerals on land according to Fujita 2001; they state that extracting the rich deposits could be a financially viable option with the next 10 years.  In years to come we will become ever more dependant on the rich seabed deposits according to an article titled deep Sea Mining.   With the recent oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico still fresh in the memory, McCarthy 2010 states that this disaster has only served to increase tension and worries surrounding the prospect of deep-sea mining.

References

Birney, K. Griffin, A. Gwiazada, J. Kevauver, J. Nagai, T. Varchel, D.

“Potential Deep Sea Mining of Sea floor Massive Sulphides, A Case Study” (Internet) http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/research/documents/ventsthesis.pdf (14/10/10)

"http://geology.uprm.edu/Morelock/resdeep.htm" (Internet) (14/10/10)

McCarthy, M. (2010) "Deep-sea mining adds to fears of marine pollution" (Internet) http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/deepsea-mining-adds-to-fears-of-marine-pollution-2016292.html (16/10/10)

VARK questionnaire

Having taken the VARK questionnaire it revealed that i am a strategic learner.  On the whole i agree with the statement about my approach to learning, however i am not surprised by this.  I do feel that i can see a part of myself fitting into deep, strategic and surface approach respectively in one way or another though, for this reason i do not think that i have a least favourite method of learning, i tend to feel that i will always just get on with the task with whatever approach gets the job done.  Maybe this approach could be looked at in a way that could make my learning a little more effective.  I do set myself high standards so anything that can raise the bar so to speak would be beneficial to myself, for instance, i sometimes switch off and become distracted to easily whilst studying at home.  With regards to the deep approach to learning, sometimes if i find a particular area within a subject interesting, i tend to go a little to in depth than is required just to satisfy my own interests.