An underwater airplane hunter wants to unearth Alaska’s offshore minerals

By: Max Graham, Northern Journal

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: April 17, 2026

Words: 1,318

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Tony Romeo is on the hunt for minerals, but he’s far from a typical prospector.

Based in South Carolina, Romeo doesn’t spend summers in the mountains with a rock pick, and he’s not interested in combing creek beds for gold.

His focus, rather, is miles beneath the surface of the ocean, where a new and highly speculative industry is racing to find and scoop up vast deposits of metals on the seafloor.

Romeo is chief …

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