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in the middle of the pacific ocean, an ambitious expedition has set taps to explore the deep sea going, when no human has ever gone before, where a numerous deposits of minerals night doman. can chew menissi benefit from this on top. the source of wealth, the technology to harvest, it already exists. the 1st prototype of a deep sea collect tested the treasure stones, is called atanya. it's being tested at a depth of several 1000 meters. scientists and monitoring its deployments. because what is technically feasible might actually destroy a delicate underwater wells. is it less the risk this isn't them going to them? these are basically batteries in stone form is this is exactly what you need to

build a battery. there's manganese nichols, cobalt and copper to conduct the electricity and environmental protection organizations such as green piece one to prevent deep sea mining its own costs. it's the last cost of the planet that humans have yet to exploit for resources of the oceans in danger. the making peace with nature is of the funding task of the century, preserving as restarting the ocean's ability to nurture humanity and regulatory

climates will be that the funding challenges of these back is 71 percent of the surface is covered by oceans. it's the neurologist habitat to on the planet, the, the ocean surface, an important teach buffer and comp in sync. they observe about a quarter of manmade. c o 2 emissions and thus mitigate the effects of climate change the depth on need added on it or estimates the oceans to survive. originally, to climate, they provide food home. they provide the oxygen, we bring more than 50 percent of it by the way, in duplex. but the world's oceans of suffering that ruthlessly being fished back of the waste,

produced by an increasing the affluent society, is becoming more prevalent in the war time. virtually indestructible plastic waste in dangerous animals and the habitats so called ocean dead zone. so guessing of a larger climate change is also causing sea levels to rise. never the last it's exploitation continues. sand and gravel of being dredged for uses building materials at this point where we've lost 50 percent of our ocean, 50 percent of the wells and the fish that lived in the us. and when my grandfather 1st started scuba diving after the 2nd world war disappeared. now we're exploring that he was searched places the to still quite inaccessible. we know almost nothing of the parent and animal species living that the

yet squared away there are results which know jill. some of the see that they may have co bolts, nicole manganese and co pay, just the materials to meet the rapidly growing demand for battery use as the well shifts away from fossil fuels. getting metals from our planet can be done without any environmental impact. so what we need to be thinking about is how do we make decisions that cause least harm to the planet that we're trying to protect? in june 2021, the united nations in new york was focusing attention on the highly threatening to maureen habitats. the un proclaimed an ocean decades to advance the protection and sustainable development of the world's oceans. actress available to go of these challenges, so the top priorities for everyone. if you, with welcome to the united deck of ocean science together,

that has discovered the science we needs for the ocean, we want. thank you. mm. the in march 2021 in the midst of the global competitive iris pandemic, special shit was stopped at the us pacific fleets naval base in san diego. the vessel, the island pride was preparing to go to sea. its crew and the company and european scientists were going on this special mission the as part of the mining impact program. there were searches were heading out to examine what happens on the c bed during the world's 1st tests of us. 35 ton underwater harvesting machine called a poly metallic o manganese note your collect,

so it's a big project. we want to analyze the environmental impacts of among denise and not you will collect on working in the deep sea and we have quite a few scientific groups on board you the test. this is the 1st test of it's kind of really close to the conditions you might expect from a deep sea mining operation. it's very important for the environmental analyses, parameters and founded that needs to be development, stand off the answer because that's what we're doing together with so many great scientific groups via a concentration of your, of scientific minds, actually on the oil fall or some other technical we have all the technologies,

the marine research institute offer. we've got all sorts of equipment here. are all very high tags. yes, i'm really looking forward to know that it's finally getting underway. all kinds of measuring and testing equipment we used during this expedition, including this giant boat land, which has already been in service for 25 years at the lending gate that's. that's right. but then not for the moon, but for lending on the c beds. so very much like that, so we will drop, it's from the ship and most of the, with some different kinds of sensors. and then it's, it goes in 3 fold to 4. can you meet your steps and then make a quiet landing on the sea. that's all we want to know, what's the impact this of the c mining, which is a concern to many people also to myself. i think we need to talk to patients of sufficient stone. they're close to where this money is going to happen. so just so

you know, better that we can better predicts what's in pennsylvania for such is want to investigate fast. well, industry is ready to dig this advertisement for the canadian mining enterprise. the metals company promises a simple solutions. energy from the sun and wind is replacing fossil fuels to power the transmission to a sustainable future. we need batteries to store this energy. batteries are made from metals such as cobalt, nickel, copper and main. denise. until now we've been mining the earth for them, digging deeper and wider for lower quality orse. nature disappears. humans suffer earth suffering. but there is another way of the all that's needed a mutton ray bones. but is it that simple?

the canadian city of toronto is with simmons this semester lives. she's the head of sustainable se for the belgian mining company g. i saw them manganese know jo, collectivism to getting a series of tests in the pacific as we are together globally. we are facing a climate crisis and i think, you know, there is this increasing recognition around the world that we need to do something and we need to do something now. so that's a big part of that is moving towards clean energy. so moving away from, from fossil fuels and what that means is that we're moving away from a planet fuel on fossil fuels to one that is built on metals and minerals because clean metal technology is so metal intensive. so for these, where materials have come from mines on land, located primarily in asia and africa,

the work is often disruptive. and tom sold to nature the mines that are often located in politically unstable countries, like the democratic republic of congo, where there's not much respect for human rights. the work is often suffer horrendous working conditions risking their lives sticking metals that fetched prices fall greater than the wages. the industry says getting results is from the c that will be far easier. we have options about where those metals can come from and, and we're exploring one which is going to the sea floor for them. and there's a lot of reasons why going to the sea floor intuitively seems to make some sense. and one is we don't need to remove for us. and in some cases, tropical rain forests are being removed to get some nickel. we don't need to remove for us or are single trees to get to the middle of its on the sea floor. nor do we

need to move mountains to get to the orbit or body and people don't need to be relocated. so right away those, those reasons make a lot of sense. but of course, that doesn't mean that we can just dive to the deep sea and, and not do it thoughtfully. we also have to get the research done so that we understand how to proceed well, minimizing our environmental footprint to come. that'd be deep sea results collection without causing new environmental problems. the islands, pride's deposit from san diego for a 6 week expedition to find out expect patients what hi or miss you own is this mission is to investigate the environmental impact civil lives. we know a lot about this marine habitats on the it's ecology. do you? but the animal is that, and if that of a nice but not necessarily what the impact will be when big equipment and machines

on driving around on the see, find a me of us board and have them find on our objective is simply to attempt to finalize how and to mutually take measurements that we can present these findings to the public and assigned to the key balanced way younger. some child please. no, it's fine. science industry and policy makers all watch the expedition closely. the findings could have far reaching consequences, as humans move towards the age of green technology. the of the crew and researches waived farewell. as the san diego sky line receded, the boats went off into the night of to west some countries and companies would like to develop new sources for rule materials as quickly as possible to make the ocean a source of mineral results. the k, pavel days,

10 islands, located around 600 columbus is of the west african coast. the country has half a 1000000 inhabitants, most of them to send it from format african slaves once a colony of poach ago it gained independent same 1975. the even though capes that is considered one of the most prosperous countries in africa, the state of loss of poverty. so many the sea is the source of life. within look at the coast line in some places indicate something is wrong here. where they were, one, sandy beach is a now on the stove, the on of a go works for the conservation organization. loved to now she also takes people on

choice. the nature has been most of the sleigh, exploitative, the women. what should truck go by loaded with sand from the show? this was just thought sense. and so we so to someone else. so they come here speak to the sense and then the status of the market is like a small business. he's not the really big company. so there are several taxes, not just only one. and as you see dozens of so much st anymore, so you need to that they're still exist if you'd be. so if there's a against the low, it's would be then a big a descent. but the surveillance is very weak. that's the big problem.

it's not allowed the big sams. uh, although there is not civilians here, but it could be controlled the on the road. but no one doesn't yeah. the 2 conservationists look on stands to see how these people are re legally stripping sand from beneath stuff feet. no, i mean i've, i've got another truck is loaded this time with sand taken from the sea bed days ago. the sound is sold as rule material for the construction industry for use this back. breaking job has been the only way for people like maria to and

a little money to the 80 piece ago side of it. that's very exhausting and tiring. sometimes there's even a dangerous drowning we found in the walton like this. it's dangerous so much. but if we don't do this, there is no other way for us to win money. you know, put that on the conservation. i think diane obama, you the magic on a lounge that years ago, the bay of lee, but at the back row was a sandy beach covered with dean's mazda 6 of them. nothing of that remains today and i to assess the people digging up the sam to know what they doing here isn't right, right. i will find something you want to ask the uh how much they said to, to do this kind of job. and that was shock, because each truck is around $30.00 to $40.00 euros,

and if they are desperate to sell even friends, 5 years they sell and the driver will say at least around kind of thing to use a i even ask if they would like to change their job to do something else. they said yes, if there is the, the sand is being taken from the seas for use beach has a disappearing and not just in cape ready the sand discovered in small bouts, or with

a numerous industrial ships from many oceans. the impacts on devastating scientists and conservationists of low moon dive degradation of habitats for power from direct to the intellect we all consume directly or indirectly with xander gravel that comes from the ocean's theme. this is also a very big problem in the construction industry worldwide, because so much sand and gravel are being taken from beaches, including right off the coast. that entire eco systems are now changing. and biodiversity is suffering. an entire structures are being a road it um and last but not least, i organized maggio like groupings are work behind the scenes. people are forced to transport sound illegally, comfortable, entire islands are now almost free of sand in order. it must be said to enable a construction boom in the globalized, actuated west phone, which would actually have no future at all in this day. and age is evil hopkins. so this is an issue that is causing major problems in our scenes at the moment. but

hardly anyone knows that hopefully mobile high to the slice will call me months in india, africa, and all over the world, even in the north sea, sand is being dredged from sea beds. descriptions of some d. c shows no longer ring true the, the, the suns typically makes up around one so just concrete, gigantic buildings, and does it country 0. so it may just send from the sea because does it sound does on suitable for building the,

even the sand for prestige projects such as the artificial islands of to buy, comes from the see the over exploitation has fatal consequences for coastal areas, micro organisms and habitats on either the well, the meanwhile, the islands pride has headed for an area or of ocean known as the korean clipton zone between mexico until i hear enormous quantities of poly metallic nodules, an estimated 13000000000 tons lie on the sea floor. it takes almost 6 days for the island to pride to reach its destination. these devices held the keys to the expedition success. everything had to work. the tension was palpable.

there was such as play music to help themselves relax. that is, i'm the one that's at t v 9. now this is what's called a d z nanda. and inside is the module like this, optical measuring device so, so many electrodes all connected to it in the corner. they all these routes that we see here is a very small tip that optically measure the oxygen content in the sentimental. so the whole thing is no one to the sea floor. and then there was a motor on which that's programs before him on the floor, and we then use it to drive these roads into the settlement, talking and measure how much oxygen is the last of that really high tech. right? because it's definitely yeah, it's a challenge for any device conditions. they're extreme. columbus has below the surface. the supposed to be a mess and yes, it's just turned down. but what we want to measure from the oxygen levels on the sea floor in the distribution without produce different results when you bring them

up all day in columbus in. and oxygen is something, as we know ourselves. that's essentially system how many organisms use oxygen. and we see that as an indicator of how much the system it has to test this thing is if you just the substrate a loss or remove it completely, you're taking away a that's being deposited of a many thousands of years where active processes take place in a bind to stood it up, i've gotten rid of it for the last thing. and so, so you already have a chance to see now from the measurements. does that have an effect or does it look exactly the same? is it the phones that that'd be dead? and all the islands, pride has made its way to the belgian license area. this is where it was due to join the ship belonging to the belgian mining company. just saw the boat. who has that to test baton. yeah, the, well, the 1st machine prototypes are collecting manganese know deals with guns and then

your, my dog loans itself the cause of the i, it's, i really a lot of manganese nodules here. and that's we can see on the map with a mark licensed areas of the international c, but it's 30 from manganese nodules are the ones at the moment. these are all exploration licensed areas for companies or countries of acquired licenses and are looking to see how many megs and he's not. those are located there which parts of the area of mines in one of your finance. now we're going to the belgian license in . yeah, this is licensed as hell for the company. gsr. and then uh, and then in 2 weeks coach will go to the german licensed area which is a bit so twisted there. some stuff on for a new guest house person of contact for flush, a name was also on board. he was responsible for communication between the industrial vessel and the scientist says, the tests began in the belgian license area was as, as its own, a bit like the wild west area is a mont townhome the see that that 2nd nation. so companies are allowed to explore,

such as the belgian company g. i saw here. they were already in the working area. this meeting was taking place on the high seas on the loading platform at the moment and the g stood petunia, able to dive to a depth of several 1000 meters. the it's 1st knife was being prepared.

the technical challenge was for me to vote the device not to manage the extreme pressure and maneuver the program to rates independently connected to the ship by a supply line. only a stick has a human um the g i saw had been developing the baton. yeah. as a many, is this, mona model was built a few years ago. now petunia too was to face its 1st real test. if it passed with flying colors, the vessel could possibly become a message for commercial c bed mining in the future. so for tanya too is a stay for non dual core service and i think the easiest way to picture it is to think of a vacuum cleaner. so the vehicle's been designed to pick up nodules and leave as

much sediment behind as possible and then bring them to basically collect them. and eventually that vehicle be collected to a riser which will bring the nodules to the surface. but baton, you too, was designed to collect the nodules and initially collected them and have been at the back of the vehicle. and then those modules were the positives away from the the vehicle's tracks. and other points in the trial here was now it's several times into the deep sea to test this new technology. it looks like something out of a science fiction movie. the meanwhile, on the island pride full small, stayed in touch with his ds on colleagues on the industrial ship and was brief to

how to use the manganese don't to collect to for the upcoming dive. so as in sylvie's quite the show, he had to pass this information on to the scientists said that the sensitive underwater and measuring instruments would not collide with baton. yeah. now is baton. yeah, manganese no jewel mining in the deep sea is technically feasible. the thoughts questions still remains, how great. so the environmental risks and all they was taking the, the back in tape the day on the largest island distant jago, the some of the former sandy

beaches. and now, just byron stones, owners, the sound has been gathered up and sold stones mixed with garbage, dominate the base. this, it didn't, it marine scene has been severely damaged. the, the world stood largest population. if you look ahead see test whole lives around cape sadie. today the animal is on the read list of endangered species. it's strictly protected, but the removal of the sand, the stubs habitats vital. so that reproduction on the vega into conservation organization, a committed to protecting the titles on a it's shocking to see a females struggling over the hot stones and finding no place to lay her rags. yes,

if used to be a sandy beach, but i didn't uh, knew this place before. i saw some older people and locals will describe this place as the sandy beach titles return to the beach where they hatched to lay their eggs . usually it takes 20 years for the animals to meet sexual maturity. that much has changed into decades. yeah, the vatican said stores because this is the device and last year, but there is no sense. so it came out, but unfortunately it was 3000 to see. it came this morning of the 7th day am the the really, really fast. because a manual. the deck has wound around here. maybe i've been going to use uh

uh, slides and mess. and when it came out that that these house being completed destroyed by human being really said, so i think we have a you to, you try to restore this place. it promote the take the vision on a has a degree in marine biology. she spent time abroad and realized that something must urgently be done in her home country to protect the oceans on nature. she found it the nature conservation organization loved to know right here in 2013. but now dozens of help us of working on projects on the beaches. things of really taking off is usually ones because the vision to be successful. we need to vote locals. so we get to see that like a specialist for the nature of the,

for the spaces and excites classes. and it was more difficult, but now he sees it. and it says that she stopped to have the meeting state to face daniel, sol, uh, which device will be a life and then to and his approach is simple, financed by donations and tries to generate awareness by adding a bit of kind of, for example, photo mosquito is the name of this fishing village on the by i go in, found no hills bay. the fishing boats beached on stones assigned loan ship to way and then walks through the village and she's proud. lots has changed here in the last few months. the place has a new look what i mean. the last one that started doing the same thing. it was that when, when is this regarding the fishing and see birds and the locals,

they like it and we saw it as a positive way of make people more aware about the nature of conservation. so we saw some green faces about the local bi adversity and we didn't stop yet. so we plan to do more. 1 for instance, the global, the village, and beautiful thinking, what's the rock smoke people and so the local can associate this visits with uh, it for some reason. now, ocean flora and fauna decorate the facades of the house. is there a constant reminder of the importance of preservation? the exact to this famous marine explorer plays an important role deductible. visited by using fam,

a 1948 with 2 are the clinics. so don't know and the over the speaker. so they came here this and if they wanted the, if you want to do some record to nevada. uh the notion. so we decided to bring back to this family that was almost lost because the majority of the locals, we don't even know who was just so and if, if she or she was around here, the check still was a legendary ocean. explore the french diving pioneer and still commentary filmmaker introduced people to the underwater well like to know of the hebrews images of the depths, never seen before into the world's living beings. the

cristo wanted to explode the unknown world under the sea at cold the oceans to be protected. the . this is the friendship non tit coast, not far from the mouth and why river. the grand to to object castille and her family live nearby. after her father's death, alexandra cristo spent almost her entire childhood with her grandfather that left it smoke. she's very concerned about the state of the ocean's. i think if we continue with business as usual where we're over fishing, we're booting, we are advancing with ideas like deep sea mining. we're going to see our ocean

disappear, will continue to see a decline. and at a certain point you reach tipping points where you have exponential loss and that's hard to come back from. you can't really come back from exponential loss like we can put cove it back in a bottle. you know that the damage is done. so once we reach those tipping points with the ocean, the damage will be done and we won't be able to reverse it. the next sondra says that her grandfather to attend to dies before she could walk hun lots of the oceans is his legacy. like him, she makes document trees, advocates for the preservation of marine environments, and look for ways to save the oceans the she wishes she still had her grandfather at to side in addition to her husband,

whose then now my grandfather passed away 20 years ago and left a huge void in the world, not just for me and my family, but i think it felt like there was this huge cruise, so shaped hole in the universe after he died that no one himself. but what i realize is that every time someone tells me i grew up watching your grandfather, he really inspired me. i love the ocean now, and i want to do something to help protect it. we're finally at a point in time where we can maybe 10 years ago, 20 years ago, we weren't, we didn't have the technologies, we didn't have the solution. we didn't have the urgency that we have today. and so

my hope is that for everyone who loved him and loved his feelings and loved exploring the oceans with him, and that discovery and sense of on wonder that he brought my hope is that they will harness that and use it to create change. because that is the best legacy he could possibly have left us the on the cape that they islands on our and take groups of help us of build to protection area for tattle clutches on one of the remaining sandy beaches. the educational signs show passes by the importance of the oceans and the knife in them. the. this is where the test whole sleigh directs for weeks and then to know what she's

over the catches of eggs that have been collected here, the organization and shows the baby tassels can hatch safely. we are checking which in this red hat's which to nest. by now we have a 147 mess here. so the team would checking the box to the conservation for the people to have a job so that someone in their family and also try to send this fashion a nature small steps. but they make a difference. the

jack costume would like, he'd be happy to see these efforts to conserve marine wildlife the the endless expenses of bad war to stretch beyond the island, pride's helicopter platform. he is to 2 lovely ships in the fountain license area in the clarion capitan's zone

in the pacific ocean from the jack summers to europe and scientists watched as the belgian company. g. a saw pine, the tickets, deep diving, high tech machine. from it ship the norman to energy the. now there were such as many measuring instruments and senses and robots known as are these were coming into play? no, at 4 and a half. columbus has down into the depths, they were positioned around the deployment area on the sea bed, wip atanya was making its way the, the scientists wanted to know the impact, the baton you would have on nature. the control room is located on one of the lower decks of the island prides and the

pilots was sitting staring at them on it is ours as they controlled the robots on the deep sea floor. with that was an overwhelming feeling of being in a different love. the assistant station is, of course it actually is a corner of the wells, the tweet been the know and everything with seeing him. nobody else has seen before . 7, actually, that's always exciting. scientific history was being made at that moment. 4 and a half 1000 meters below the ship. extremely important. research was taking place under extreme conditions. the

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