is fighting so far the all that so, so now of next is documentary deep sea green explaining the ocean floor. i told me a lot of going well and thanks for watching the, the taste of us. we have a problem that was in the us middle class income has fairly risen in the last 20 to 30 years perhaps the next week at the same time that keeps right. 300 trillion that the truck, the december 9th on dw, the,

the, in the middle of the pacific ocean, an ambitious expedition has setups to explore the deep sea going when no human has ever gone before. where a numerous deposits of minerals, 9 dormant country 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 to 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, but the reason 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 and environmental protection organizations such as green piece one to prevent deep sea mining its own costs. the. it's the last cost of the planet that humans have yet to exploits 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 much of humanity and regulatory climates will be the defining challenges of these becket. 71 percent of the surface is covered by oceans. it's the not just 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 is needs to oceans to survive. they regulate the climate, they provide food 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 at

the waste, produced by an increasing the affluent society, is becoming more prevalent in the war to virtually indestructible plastic waste in dangerous animals. and the habitats so called ocean dead zones guessing as a logic. climate change is also causing seen 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 are still quite inaccessible. we know almost nothing of the prompted animal species living that the

yet twitter, well, there are results which know jill some, the c badge, 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 habitat, the un proclaimed in ocean decades to advance that protection and sustainable development of the world's oceans. actress and it will develop and cool as these challenges. so the top priorities for everyone,

if you with welcome to the united deck of ocean science together, it 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 shit was dr. 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 tests of us. 35 ton

underwater harvesting machine called a poly metallic o manganese note, your collect to sign who was out. 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. yeah. 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, understand it, that needs to be development, stand up because that's what we're doing together with so many great scientific groups here. a concentration of your 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, 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 land, which has already been in service for 25 years. i've been lending your 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 draw, fits from the ship and most of the, with some different kinds of sensors. and then it's, it goes in 3 fold, $214.00 major 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 needs good up to faces of

sufficient stone there. close to where this money is going to happen. so we know better that we can better predicts what's in pennsylvania such as one to investigate fast well, industry is ready to dig this advertisement for the canadian mining enterprise. the metals company promises a simple solution. 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 software, earth software. but there's another way of all that's needed a mutton ray box. 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 far, these will 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 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 price is 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 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. 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 for hi miss you own is this mission is to investigate the environmental impact symbol that we know a lot about this marine habitats on that. it's ecology to you, but the animal is that and if that of on this but not necessarily what the impact

will be when big equipment and machines on driving around on the seat that a me of us board and have them find on our objective is simply to assess departmentalized and mutual need take measurements underneath that, we can present these findings to the public in a scientific key balanced way younger, some chocolate, you know, it's 5 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 2 as 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 resources capable of days,

10 islands located around 600 columbus has of the west african coast. the country has half a 1000000 inhabitants, most of them to send it from form 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. with a look at the coast line and some places indicate something is wrong here. whether we want sandy beach is a now on the stove, the kind of

a go works for the conservation organization. loved to know, she also takes people on choice. the nature has been most to leslie explored to the women. what should truck go by 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 sell it to the market. is like a small business. he's not the really big company. so there are several taxes i was just only one. and as you see dozens of so much st anymore, so you need so that, that still exist, it would 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 to big sense. uh oh, do. there is not civilians here, but it's good to be controlled on the road. but no one doesn't the to 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 sound is sold as rule material for the construction industry for use this back. breaking job has been the only way. so 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 is think diane ok some are you the magic on a lounge that years ago? the bay of leave it at the back row was a sandy beach covered with gainesville, mazda, 6 of them. nothing of that remains today, and i totally assessed the people digging up to some to know what they doing here isn't right. i will i've asked could, 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 friends, 5 years they sell and the driver will say at least around 10 to 20 years. uh, i even asked if they would like to change the job to do something else. they said, yes, it goes up. what can you see if 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 concealed 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 comes put, entire islands are now almost free of sand in order. it must be said to enable a construction boom in the globalized, absolutely 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 muscle high to the slice will call me month 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 made of sand from the sea because does it sound does on suitable for building

even the sand to prestige projects such as the artificial islands of 2, by, comes from the sea for exploitation has the fatal consequences for coastal areas, microorganisms, and habitats all over the world. the meanwhile, the islands, pride has headed for anatomy or of ocean known as the carrion clipton zone between mexico until like the enormous quantities of pauline metallic nodules, an estimated 13000000 tons 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 at t v 9. now this is what's called a d z nanda. and inside is a module like this. optical measuring device is 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 sacramento. so the whole thing is low into the sea floor. and then there was a motor on inch that's progress just 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 is below the surface. the supposed to be a mess. and yes, it's just turned down that 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 and, and oxygen is something, as we know ourselves. that's essentially a system problem. 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 and many thousands of years where active processes take place and you've understood adolfo, gotten rid of it, and civil. and the last thing you saw, so you already have a chance to see now from the measurements. does that have an effect or does it look exactly the same as it did before and that that'd be dead? and although 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 d. i saw the boat. was that to test baton? yeah, the well 1st machine prototypes are collecting manganese no deals. i'm going to

measure my dog lends itself because if i ever looked of mine and he's not, you'll see here. we can see on the map with a mark licensed areas of the international c. but as 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 manganese nodules are located there. which parts of the area of mines in one of your finance. now we're going to the belgian licensed area and there is 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 it's west that there's stuff on 4 g s halls, person of contact hall 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 areas of mount townhome,

the sea bed, the 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 to meet as the it's 1st knife was being per pads.

the technical challenge was for me to both 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 petunia 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 for tanya too is a state flor nodule called 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 deposited away from the the vehicles tracks and other points in the trial. atanya was noted 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 d. s. on colleagues on the industrial ship and was brief to how to use the mind.

denise, no, jo collect to for the upcoming dive. so as to sylvie's quite to 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 ya, manganese, no jewel mining in the deep sea is technically feasible. the question 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, owners, 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 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 female struggling over the hot stones and finding no place to lay her rags yet if

used to be a sandy beach, but i didn't uh, knew this place before i saw some older people, and locals would describe just the place as sandy beach tassels returned. the beach, where they hatched to lay their eggs. usually it takes 20 years for the animals to reach sexual maturity. that much has changed into decades. yeah, the vatican said story because this is that that's why it's a mess here, but there is no sense. so it came out. but unfortunately it has to be fun 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. maybe i've been going to use uh uh try to mess. and when it came out the that these house being completed by human beings 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 people locals. so we try to get them to pay that like a specialist for the nature of the,

for the spaces and they size such as it was more difficult, but now he sees it and he just doesn't get the stuff. we have the top community, the phase, and also uh, which drives me via 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 a doe in found no health bay. the fishing boats beached on stones the signed loan ship to way and then walks through the village and she's proud. a lot has changed here in the last few months. the place has a new look what i can see in the south and doing the same thing. it was that went

away. and as i could see was this regarding the fishing and the books 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 stop in doing the faces about the local bi adversity and we didn't stop yet. so we plan to do more. for instance, the global, the village, and beautiful thinking, what's the rock most people and so the local can associate this visit with uh, it was the reason i live in 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 only speaker so they came here best. and if they want 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 didn't even know who was jack. 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 no other the hebrews, the images of the depths never seen before into the world's living wins

the crystal wanted to explode the unknown world under the sea, and called to the oceans to be protected. the . this is the french it and then took coast not far from the mouth and why rissa. 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 that left 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 coven back in the 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 that. the next sondra says that her grandfather, to try to dive before she could walk hun love as 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 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 day. islands on our entire group has help us to build the 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 tassels lay 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 hatch safely. we are checking which in this red hat's woodson, this, the, by now we have a 147 mess here. so the team was checking the box to the conservation for the people to have a job so that someone in their family and also twice sensor this fashion the nature the small steps. but they make a difference. the

jack coastal would likely be happy to see these efforts to conserve marine wildlife the the, [000:00:00;00] the endless expenses of bad move to stretch beyond the island, pride's helicopter platform, the he is to,

to level the ships in the fountain license area in the clarion campus in zone in the pacific ocean from the deck, some us to your pin scientists watched as the belgian company, g, a saw pine, the tickets, deep diving, high tech machine from it shipped 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 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.

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