About Deep Ocean Mission:
- It is a mission-mode project to support the Blue Economy Initiatives of the Government of India.
- It is a high-level multi-ministerial, multi-disciplinary programme for a better understanding of the deep sea living and non-living resources of the Indian Ocean.
- It will aid in India’s efforts to attain the Blue Economy status.
- It aims to develop technologies to harness living and non-living resources from the deep oceans.
- The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) will be the nodal Ministry implementing this multi-institutional Mission.
- The estimated cost of the Mission will be 4077 crores for a period of 5 years (2021-26) to be implemented in a phase-wise manner.
- The Mission consists of six major components:
- Development of Technologies for Deep Sea Mining and Manned Submersible and Underwater Robotics;
- Development of Ocean Climate Change Advisory Services;
- Technological innovations for exploration and conservation of deep-sea biodiversity;
- Deep Ocean Survey and Exploration;
- Energy and freshwater from the Ocean;
- Advanced Marine Station for Ocean Biology;
