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the, 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 dormant 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 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?

a lot of these are 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 nurture humanity and regulate all climates will be that the funding challenges of these back is 71 percent of the surface is covered by an ocean. it's the neurologist habitat to on the planet the. the ocean says there's 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 beings pushed back

the the waste produced by an increasing the affluent society is becoming more prevalent in the war time, virtually indestructible, plastic waste and dangerous animals. and the habitats so called ocean dead zone. so guessing as a logic 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 scuba diving after the 2nd world war from disappeared. now we're exploring that he was searched places the to still quite inaccessible. we know almost nothing of the pin on to the animal species living that the

yet squared away there are results which know jill. some of the c beds they made of cobalt to 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 in ocean decades to advance the protection and sustainable development of the world's oceans. actress and it will do it a good 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 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 were 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 home 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 sci fi and we have quite a few scientific groups on board you the test. this is the 1st test of it's kind of the way 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 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, 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 at the lending gear that's. that's right. but then not for the moon, but for lending on the c beds. um, so very much like that, we will drop it from the ship and most of the way, some different kinds of sensors. and then it's, it goes in 3 fold to 14 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 face and helps

the patients down there. close to where this mining is going to happen. so just so you 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, 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 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 is a 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 were 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 reading this working conditions risking their lives sticking 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 trees to get to the middle of it from 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 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 for hi miss you own is this mission is to investigate the environmental impact of all this . we know a lot about this marine habitats on the it's ecology. do 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 may have as board and have them find on our objective is simply to attempt to finalize and mutually take measurements. so we can present these findings to the public in a scientific key balanced way younger. some child please 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, the cape, pavel 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 stand, the loss of poverty. so many the sea is the slowest of life. with a look at the coast line in some places indicate something is wrong here. whether one, 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 of leslie explored to 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 of the sense and then the sell. this is a 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 to that they're still exist if you'd be. so if there's a against the law, it's would be then a big

a 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 could be controlled on the road. but no one doesn't yeah. the 2 conservationists look on stands to see how these people are legally stripping sand from beneath the feet. no, i mean, as i 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 thing dressed. all right. but if we don't do this, there is no other way for us to win money to get the, you know, put that on will be different. 7 yeah, leo. the conservationist think diane. okay. um. are you the lodge 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 her how much they had to do this kind of job and that was short

because each truck is around $30.00 to $40.00 euros and they are desperate to spell even french 5 beautiful day. so and the driver will say at least around kind of thing to use a i even asked if they would like to change the job to do something else. they said yes, if there is of what can you see if as 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 owe consumes 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 attire. 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 absolutely, the west side, which would actually have no future at all in this day and age people hopkins. so

this is an issue that is causing major problems in our scenes at the moment, but hardly anyone knows that and hopefully middle 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 sandy 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 for 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 either the wealth. the meanwhile, the islands, pride has headed for anatomy or of ocean known as the korean clipton zone, between mexico until like the enormous quantities of pauline metallic nodules, an estimated 13000000 tons lie on the sea. flo will it take so much 6 days for the island prides 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 t c name. 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, and they all these routes that we see here is a very small tip, the optically measurements the oxygen content in the sacramento. so the whole thing is no one to the sea floor. and then there was a motor on it that's programmed 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 is 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 and, and oxygen is something, as we know, al sales. 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 toughest thing is 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 in a bind to stood adolfo gotten rid of it. and then 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? is that the phones that that'd be dead? and although the island, despite 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 dogs going on. because it's, however, a lot 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 nachos 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 nozzles 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 that's on his license as hell for the company gsr enough . and then in 2 weeks i would still go to the german licensed area which is a bit. so twist that there's the stuff on for g s. halls, 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 as well as its own. a bit like the wild west areas of 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 both the device not to manage the extreme pressure and maneuver the programs 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 for tanya as in many is this the 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 knowledgeable collector. 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 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 d. s. 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, as 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 you. it now is baton ya, 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. one of the sounds 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 tassels lives around cape that day. to day the animal is on the read list of endangered species. it's strictly protected, but the removal of the sands, dest 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, it used to be a sandy beach, but i didn't uh, knew this place before i've just bought from older people and local will describe this place as sandy beach tassels return to 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. yes, developing said story because this is the, that's why it's a mess here, but there is no sense. so it came out, but unfortunately substitute them to see it came this morning of august, the 7th day am the the 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 being reset. so i think we have a you to, you try to restore this place in order to promote 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 get that. so that, that like

a special for the nature of the spaces and excites no such as it was more difficult, but now he sees it and he just doesn't. she stopped to have the opportunity to face and also 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 the base fishing village on the by a doe in found no health bay. the fishing boats beached on stones assigned 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 wet when,

as i can see, this is regarding the fishing and see 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 saw some green, 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 in beautiful banking with rocks, 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 houses. they are a constant reminder of the importance of preservation. the to this famous marine explorer plays an important role

deductible, visited by using fam in 1948 with 2 of the clinics. so don't know and the speaker. so they came here best 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 didn't even know who was jeff still. 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 april, the images of the depths never seen before into the world's living means 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 river. the granddaughter of shack 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 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't 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 it. the next sondra says that her grandfather, to try to dive before she could walk hon. lots of the oceans, is his legacy. like him. she makes document trees advocate, so the preservation of marine environments and look for ways to save the oceans the she wishes she still had her

grandfather at test 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 on the, on the cape that day. islands on our entire group of health posts of bills to protection area for tough to 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 laid their rags. for weeks none to know what she's over

the catches of eggs that have been collected here the organization and shows the baby tassels can hach safely. we are checking which in this red hat, which to nash by now we have 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 try to send this fashion a nature small steps. but they make a difference. the

jack, who still would like, he'd be happy to see these efforts to conserve marine wildlife the endless expenses of bad move to stretch beyond the island pride's helicopter platform. he is to to level the ships into the fountain license area in the clarion kitchen zone and the

pacific ocean from the deck. some of the european scientists watched as the belgian company g. i saw pined the tickets, deep diving, high tech machine from it ship the norman to energy the. now the research has many measuring instruments and senses and robots known as our fees 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 that time 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 there was an overwhelming feeling of being in a different love. the assist type session is as cost. it actually is a corner of the well, the tweet bending now and everything with seeing hand, 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

india, 50 or 60 percent of the photos weren't way to haven't gone. and then ultimately, and this has happened in the last decade. this is not very long the, even in our life go based and g o is helping to protect endangered marine environment. and that's how the, how the eco indian in 30 minutes on the w 9. but i will tell you we're happy that we are

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