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the, in the middle of the pacific ocean. an ambitious expedition has set out to explore the deep sea going, when no human has ever gone before, where a numerous deposits of minerals night doman. can humanity benefit from this on top, the source of wealth, the technology to harvest, it already exists. the 1st prototype of a deep sea collected 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 was the risk this isn't them going to them with a visa is basically batteries in stone farm. this is exactly what you need to build

a battery. there's manganese, nickel, cobalt and copper to conduct the electricity. 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 the defining challenges of these becket. 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 as meets the oceans to survive. they regulate the climate they provide for the home. they provide the oxygen, we bring more than 50 percent of it by the way and do things. 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 ocean when my grandfather 1st started school diving after the 2nd world war from disappeared. now we're exploring that he was searched places that is still quite inaccessible. we know almost nothing of the parent of animal species living that the

yet where, where there are results which know jill. some the see that they may have co bolts, nicole manganese and co pay, just the materials to meet the rapidly growing demand for batch we 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 in ocean decades to advance the protection and sustainable development of the world's oceans. i proceeded with a good as 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 corona virus pandemic, special shipped was docked 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 a special mission the as part of the mining impact program. there was such as we're heading out to examine what happens on the c bed during the world's 1st test. so this 35 ton

underwater harvesting machine called a poly metallic manganese note, you will collect to sign out. it's a big project. we want to analyze the environmental impact of among denise and not you will collect on working in the deep sea and we have quite a few scientific groups on board. yeah. the test, this is the 1st test of its kind and we're really close to the conditions you might expect from a deep sea mining operation. it's very important for the environmental analyses, parameters on standards 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 scientific minds, actually on the oil fall. the technical we have all the technology is the marine research institute offer. we've

got all sorts of equipment here, 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 bobo lands, uh, which has already been in service for 25 years at the lending. good that's, that's right. but then not for the moon, but for landing on the sea fence. so very much like that's level drop, it's from the ship and most of the, with some different kinds of sensors. and then it's, it goes in 3 full 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 big c mining, which is a concern to many people also to myself. i think we needs good up to faces of

sufficient stone there. close to where this money is going to happen. so does he know better that we can better predicts what's in pennsylvania for such is one 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 and nickel, copper and main. denise. until now we've been mining the earth for them, digging deep uh and wider for lower quality orse. nature disappears. human suffer. earth suffers. but there is another way to move. it's needed a modern robots. 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, no geo. 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 and fossil fuels to one that is built on metals and minerals because clean metal technology is so metal intensive. so for these were materials have come from mines on land,

located primarily in asia and africa. the work is often destructive and tom sold to nature. the mines 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 reading this working conditions risking their lives digging metals that fetched prices fall greater than the wages. the industry says, getting results is from the c bed 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 that 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 traits 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. and 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. a can that be deep see results collection without causing new environmental problems? the island prides deposited from san diego for a 6 week expedition to find out. expect patients for hi miss you own is this mission is to investigate the environmental impact civil list . we know a lot about this marine habitats on the it's ecology. do you with the animal? is that and if that of on this but not necessarily what the impact will be one 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 it says, to finalize how and to mutually take measurements. so we can present these findings to the public in a scientific key balanced way here on this and shop 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 crew and researches waived for well as the san diego sky line was seated. the boats went off into the night of to west some countries and companies would like to develop new sources for room materials as quickly as possible to make the ocean a source of mineral results of the k. to that days,

10 islands located around 600 kilometers 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 like team 75. the, even though capes that is considered one of the most prosperous countries in africa, the stand a loss of poverty. so many the see is the source of life. with a look at the coast line and some places indicate something is wrong here. whether one, sandy beach is a now on the stove, the on of

a go x for the conservation organization. loved to know she also takes people on choice. the nature has been most of the slick exploitative the women. what should truck go buy? loaded with sand from the show. this was just bought the sand and you so we sell 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 trucks and not just only one of the and as you see the each dozens of so much st anymore. so you need to that, that still exist if you'd be. so if there's a against the law, it's would be then

a big descent. but the surveillance is very weak. that's the big problem. it's not allowed the big sams, or do there is not civilians here, but it's good to be controlled the on the road. but no one doesn't of the, the, the 2 conservationists con, stunned to see how these people are legally stripping sand from beneath the feet. no, i mean i've got another truck is loaded this time with sand taken from the sea bed days ago. the sand is sold as rule material for the construction industry. for years, 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 profile cuz you know, the conservation is think diane ok time. are you the lodge on a lounge that years ago the bay of free, but at the baka was a sandy beach covered with gainesville, mazda, 6 of them. nothing of that remains today, and i totally assess the people taking up the sam to know what they doing here isn't. right, right. so when you want to i've asked uh how much they had to do this kind of job. and that was shocked. because each truck is around $30.00

to $40.00 euros, and if they are desperate to sell even french, 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 beaches that 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 owe conceal 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 apps with west and south, 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 countries are also made of sand from the sea. because does it sound does own suitable for building the

even the sand to prestige projects such as the artificial islands of dubai, comes from the sea for exploitation has the faithful consequences for coastal areas, micro organisms and habitats on life of the wells. the meanwhile, the islands pride has headed for an area or of ocean known as the korean clipton zone, between mexico until like the enormous quantities of pauline metallic nodules, an estimated 13000000000 towns lie on the sea floor. it takes almost 6 days for the island 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 a t v. now this is what's called a d z nanda. and inside is the module like this, optical measuring devices. so many electrodes all connected to it in the corner. they all these routes that we see here is a very small tip, the optically mattress, the oxygen content in the sacramento. so the whole thing is no one to the seasonal live and then there is a mutual niche that's program is before hand 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 and the distribution produced 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 is messed. the thing is that if you just the substrate a loss or remove it completely, you're taking away a layer that's being deposited of a many thousands of years where active processes take place in a bind to stood adolfo gotten rid of it. and 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 that the phones that that'd be dead and all the island 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. do you saw the boat? was that to test baton? yeah. the well 1st machine prototypes are collecting manganese know deals that come

to me or my dog loans itself because it's, however, a lot of mine and he's not. you'll see here. you can see on the map with a mark license serious at the international c by the 30, from manganese. no tools 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 minorities nodules are located there, which parts of the area of the mines in one of your finance. now we're going to the belgian licensed area and there is one licenses health of the company gsr enough. and then in 2 weeks or so we'll go to the german licensee area, which is a bit. so twist that there should be stuff on for g s. house person of contact ha 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 sea bed,

the 2nd nation. so companies are allowed to explore, such as the belgian company, 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 its 1st knife was being per pads.

the technical challenge was for me to build 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 aside being developing the baton ya as in 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 baton ya. 2 is a state floor nodule. cool 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. moving the meanwhile, on the island pride full small, stayed in touch with his d. s. on colleagues on the industrial ship, and his brief tw,

how to use the manganese don't tool collect to for the upcoming dive. so as to 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 ya now is baton ya, manganese, nor do mining in the deep sea is technically feasible. the thoughts questions still remains how great. so the environmental risks, and all they was taking or back in tape the day on the largest island distant jago,

the some of the former sandy beaches and now just byron stones. own as the sound has been gathered up and sold stones mixed with gun homepage, dominate the base. this it didn't, it marine scene has been severely damaged. the, the world stood largest population of 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 a 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,

it used to be a sandy beach, but i didn't knew this place before. i saw some older people and locals would describe just the place as the sandy beach titles returned 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 story 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 august the 7th day am the the really really says because

a manual the deck has wound around here. my best friend. thank you bye to mess. and when he came out the 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 promotes the, the conservation 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 are usually ones because the visions to be successful. we need to vote locals. so we get done. so see that like

a special for the nature of the spaces and excites such as it was more difficult, but now he sees it. and as time is it says the stop we have the top meeting, the phase, and also uh which device will be alive. and then to this 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 a doe in found no hills bay. the fishing boats beached on stones assigned to ship to way and then walks through the village and she's proud of. lots has changed here in the last few months. the place has a new look what i was wondering about doing a basing it was that when,

when is i can see this is regarding the fishing and see buds 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 faces, the global, the village, and beautiful thinking. what's the rock smoke people? and so the locals can associate this visits with uh, it was the reason now, ocean flora and fauna decorate. the facade, says the house. is there a constant reminder of the importance of preservation the to this famous marine explorer plays an important role is that the

school visited by using fam, a 1948 with 2 or the clinics. so don't know, and the only speak up. so they came here, this and equipment, they wanted the if you want to do some record of nevada, this 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 jack install 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 means the

cristo wanted to explode the unknown world under the sea, and called to the oceans. to be protected the, this is the french atlanta coast, not far from the mouth of been why river, the granddaughter of jack castille and her family live nearby. after her father's death, alexandra cristo spent almost her entire childhood with her grandfather. not 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 this ideas like deep sea mining. we're going to see our ocean

disappear and we'll 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 close 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 try to dive 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 has her grandfather at test site, in addition to her husband, whose then now my grand father passed away 20 years ago. and left a huge void in the world, not just for me and my family, but i think it's the. 1 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 day, islands on or into groups of hell post of bills 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 slave directs for weeks and then to know what she's

over the catches of eggs that have been collected here. the organization in shows the baby tassels can hach 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 why you sent this fashion in nature. small steps, but they make a difference. the

jack coastal would likely be happy to see these efforts to conserve maureen wildlife the the endless expenses of bad war to stretch beyond the island, pride's helicopter platform he is to to level the ships in the fountain license area in the korean k buttons

own in the pacific ocean from the jack summers to your pin scientists watched as the belgian company, g, a saw pine, the 2 digits, deep diving, high tech machine from it ship the norman to energy the. now the research has many measuring instruments and sensors, 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 the control room is located on one of the lower decks of the island prides and the

pilots was sitting staring at them on his, his hours as they controlled the robots on the deep sea floor. with that was an overwhelming feeling of being in a different love. the assistant session is as cost. it actually is a corner of the wells between fanny now 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

private companies are ready to go off the move in safety. he is the has the gun again, but this time it's not just about so should we have re thing the moon has to offer big money at stake, made in germany in 30 minutes on the w,

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