This is really cool. Our desire for technology has touched so many places on earth already, and finally we can take it back to our roots -- where life on earth began -- and destroy those ecosystems as well.

The absolute best part is that there's almost no oversight. No hippie can afford a sub that takes them to the bottom of the ocean, nor can they chain themselves to an underwater vent. Finally, resource extraction can happen without the interference of progress-hating communists and shortsighted government regulations.