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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 the 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 was the risk this isn't them going to them. these are basically batteries in stone form. 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. she's green. peace wants to present d. c mining that's own costs. 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 regulate all

climates will be that the funding challenges of these beckett, the 71 percent of the surface is coverage by oceans. it's the neurologist habitat to on the planet the. the ocean says there's an important teach buffer and compounds think they observe about a quarter of manmade. c o 2 emissions and thus mitigate the effects of climate change. the depth on need add upon it or as meets the oceans to survive. they regulate the climate they provide food, 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

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 habitat, the so called ocean dead zone. so guessing, as a law gen climate change is also causing seen levels to rise. and after 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 parent of animal species living that the

yet squared away 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 shift 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 ended, will develop and quote of these challenges. so the top priorities for everyone. if

you with welcome to the united deck of open 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 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 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 off the answer 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 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 too far. 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 helps the patients down 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, nickel, copper, and manganese. 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 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, just 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 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 horrendous 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 metal that's 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 or come that'd be deep sea 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 impacts of all this. we know a lot about this marine habitats on the it's ecology. do you be 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 seat that 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 and 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 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 results. the k, pavel days,

10 islands, located around 600 columbus has of the west african coast. the country has half a 1000000 inhabitants, most of them descended from full mount african slaves. once the 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. let's look at the coast line in some places indicate something is wrong here. whether we want 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 seriously 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 cents 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 if you be so it is a against the law. it's would be then to take 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's good to be controlled on the road. but no one doesn't yeah. the 2 conservationists con, stunned to see how these people are re legally stripping sand from beneath the 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 years, this back breaking job has been the only way for people like maria to and

a little money to the 80 piece. think outside 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. all right. but if we don't do this, there is no other way for us to win money. you know, put that on. 7 yeah, leo the conservationists think diane ok, are you or that you might you on announce that years ago that they are free but the baka was a sandy beach covered with do 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 5. 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 they are desperate to sell even friends, 5 years they sell. and the job of we'll say at least around honda thing to use a i even ask if they would like to change their 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 and disappearing and not just in cape ready. the sand is gathered 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. alyssa, palm director of the intellect we owe, consumes directly or indirectly with sand or 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. 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 absolutely, the west side, which would actually have no future at all in this day and age, and it will help kind of. so this is an issue that is causing major problems in our

scenes at the moment. but hardly anyone knows that probably 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 news 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 on suitable for building the

even the sand for 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 island pride has headed for an area 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 floor. it takes almost 6 days for the islands, 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. so, so many electrodes all connected to it in a corner. they off these roads that we see here is a very small to the optically measurements of the oxygen content in the center minutes or so the whole thing is low into the sea floor. and then there was a motor on it that's programs beforehand 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 attack, 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 maximum. yes, it's just turned down that what we want to measure from the oxygen levels on the sea floor in the distribution by the 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 is was the toughest thing is that if you just the substrate loss or remove it completely, you're taking away a layer that's being deposited of the many thousands of years we're active. processes take place in a bind to stood it up, put, 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? is that the phones 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 g s. saw the boat was the test. baton. yeah. the well 1st machine prototypes are

collecting manganese no deals. pennsylvania, my god lends itself because it's, however, a lot of manganese nodules here. you can see on the map with a mark licensed serious at the international c, but authority for 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 nodules are located there, which parts of the area of mines in on your phone. you know, we're going to the belgian licensed area and if from his license as hell for the company, tsr and then ask, and then in 2 weeks i would still go to the german licensed area which is a bit. so the west that there's stuff one for dsl is 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 areas of mount townhome,

the sea bed 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 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 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 baton ya as in many is this small and a model was built a few years ago. now atanya to 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 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 the positives 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 as 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 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. yeah. now is baton ja manganese. no jewel mining in the deep sea is technically feasible . the thoughts 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 barren stones own. if 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 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 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. yes, the vatican said story because this is the device and this year, 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 bye to mess. and when he came out the that these house being completed 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 ocean's 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. if we want to, because of asians to be successful, we need to move locals. so we try to get them to see that like

a specialist for the nature of the spaces and the size such as it was more difficult, but now he sees it as, as science and he just doesn't get the stuff we have the top community, the phase and also 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 assigned no ship to way and then walks through the village and she's proud of else has changed here in the last few months. the place has a new look what i can see in the off one day when i started doing the basing. it

was, it went away. and as i can see, this is 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 and bring the faces about the local bi adversity and we didn't stop yet. so we plan to do more faces. the floor of 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 facades of the houses. they are a constant reminder of the importance of preservation. the tax on this famous marine explorer plays an important role is that the store

visited by using fam, a 1948 with 2 are the clinics. so don't know in the almost speak up. 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 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, the hebrews 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 this 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 a 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 that. 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 minutes that

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 to where we can maybe 10 years ago, 20 years ago, we weren't, we didn't have the technologies, we didn't have the solutions, 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 test 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 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 this 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 coastal would likely be happy to see these efforts to conserve maureen 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,

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 tickets, deep diving, high tech machine from its ship. the normand energy, the now the research 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

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 there 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 was seen 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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