Geographic Dive Trends: 1950s-2020s (IMAGE)

Ocean Discovery League

Geographic Dive Trends: 1950s-2020s

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Since the 1980s, there has been a shift from global, exploratory deep submergence activity in the 1960s and 1970s to a focus on modern-day EEZs or areas that are now within national jurisdiction. In the 1960s, 51.2% of all dive activities took place in what is now the high seas; In the 2010s, that fraction dropped to 14.9% of all dive activities and dives were mostly concentrated within the EEZs of the United States, Japan, and New Zealand.

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