There needs to be a global concensus this is hideous technology that will destroy our oceans.

I don't at all see this as an option for the world. There is no reason for it. We have a troposphere to protect and this is not the answer.

Escalating the use of carbon fuels is completely immoral, both from understanding a heating globe, the future of our children and leaving resources for them should their need arise.

Part of the immorality of the current status of our climate is the fact consumerism proved to be gluttons of carbon fuel. They had no reverence for it, still today. There have been viable alternatives since the time of the Great Inventors, Ford and Bell. Those inventors promoted the use of alternatives and perfecting them over hundred years ago. If that was accomplished with the advise of these great men carbon pollution would not even be an issue today. But, greed of a few took over the entire landscape of sanity and today the global community suffers at the hand of those same few.
 
May 30, 2013
By David Wethe

The oil field of the future is taking shape 2 miles undersea. (click here) As exploration crews search for new deposits at ever-greater depths offshore, the industry is grappling with the technical challenges of piping crude and natural gas through more than 10,000 feet of water. That’s spurring a drive to anchor production equipment directly to the seafloor, rather than placing it on expensive floating platforms that can be buffeted by powerful storms. 

Professors at the University of Houston (Texas), which this fall will launch a graduate program in subsea engineering, envision an underwater oil city overseen by swimming robots. “Subsea engineering is like a new frontier,” says Matthew Franchek, who’s heading the program. “We can at least walk on the moon. You’re not walking in subsea.”...

We cannot forget the enormous damage the BP Deepwater Horizon has caused and continues to cause. The ripple effect of that disaster will continue for at least the next thirty years for people and for at least a half century for the natural world. No different than Valdez. Nothing is the same yet.

I am quite confident the petroleum industry was using the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster as testing ground for Corexit as a way to maintain oil ruptures this deep at the bottom of the ocean. The industry literally sees the bottom of the ocean as a dumping ground for their mistakes, mismanagement and cost cutting; as they did the Gulf of Mexico.

June 21, 2013
By Margaret Cronin Fisk

Lawyers suing BP Plc (BP/) (click here) asked a federal judge in New Orleans to find that the company and its contractors acted with gross negligence in the April 2010 blowout of the Macondo well and the subsequent Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier will determine whether the London-based company or its contractors, Transocean Ltd. (RIG) and Halliburton Co. (HAL), acted with willful or wanton misconduct or reckless indifference, the legal requirement for establishing gross negligence. A ruling against BP could subject it to billions of dollars more in damages....

There is a very good chance this case will have to be appealed to a higher court for the victims to receive any justice at all. The judge, Carl Barbier found the government moratorium more damaging than the oil spill in any of his rulings. He never believed the realization these rigs weren't managed well and inspections lacked was an issue.  Somehow the economic damage by the moritorium was more devastating than any damage the oil spill could do. He is an amazing man. Water quality, air quality and the chance of cancer means little to him.

So, the point is the USA's petroleum interests are in direct conflict with a good outcome for Earth and it's populous. The deep sea oil drilling is adverse to life and the UNCLOS needs to include strict prohibitions to this technology until the world's populous needs the resources sometime in the distant future. The UN also needs to push for radification of all nations for UNCLOS.