By "Under Antarctica" they mean under the ice shelves that extend off the coast. Technically the ice shelves are considered inside the continent's border, despite water underneath. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet#/media/File:Antarctica_ice_shelves-en.svg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet#/medi...</a>
A massive effort is currently underway by undersea mining companies to dredge the life out of huge swaths of largely unexplored seabed, including Antarctic and Polar regions.<p>It's the same insanity that allows industrial fishing fleets to drag kilometers-long nets through the sea scooping up megatons of bycatch -- although, this time we are likely to obliterate seabed ecosystems before anyone even has a chance to see them.<p>Some brilliant reads on these and surrounding topics:<p><a href="https://susancasey.com/" rel="nofollow">https://susancasey.com/</a><p><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-deepest-map-laura-trethewey" rel="nofollow">https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-deepest-map-laura...</a>
The Why Files did this episode last week (<a href="https://youtu.be/IQz7innxnms" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/IQz7innxnms</a>).<p>It is Atlantis under the ice, after all.