In their roadmap [1], they talk about using their activities to drive additional funding: Seabed 2030 will create a series of programmatic guidelines to be s

In their roadmap [1], they talk about using their activities to drive additional funding: Seabed 2030 will create a series of programmatic guidelines to be submitted to national and international funding agencies, with the goal to promote funding opportunities that will support and share the Seabed 2030 vision. They also talk about crowd-sourcing the shallower areas, which presumably will only have a cost in data-processing. There's an information note [2] which describes in brief how the $18.5M will be spent: The funding will cover funding of the Director and some personnel at the five centers, with some travel and meeting costs. It would not cover any actual survey costs. [1] https://seabed2030.gebco.net/documents/seabed_2030_roadmap_v10_low.pdf https://seabed2030.gebco.net/documents/seabed_2030_roadmap_v... [2] https://seabed2030.gebco.net/documents/information_note_06July2017.pdf https://seabed2030.gebco.net/documents/information_note_06Ju...