Getting Timber from Underwater Forests

The February issue of Wired had a very interesting article called "Reservoir Logs" about "A submersible robot called the Sawfish can harvest healthy timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green."

Chris Godsall, CEO of Triton logging, is an entreprenuerial and inventive genius. Read the article to find out how he is able to profitably cut down long-dead forests that are deeply submerged under water, and how he overcame various technical hurdles (like the fact that the trees are water-logged and hence wouldn't float after being cut). All this, and the environmentalists are applauding as well because the more wood we can get from already dead, submerged forests, the less clear-cutting of regular forests the market will ask for.