Gerard Barron

more like 15 meters wide, maybe even wider.

And it crawls along like snow track tires.

And back in the 1970s when they ran these collector trials, so it's all pretty cool.

But in 1979, they actually launched a machine to pick up these very same rocks back when America was driving the innovation.

That was really pioneering engineering.

But back then they used a Archimedes screwdriver system to propel it forward.

And they made a big imprint in the ocean floor, about 80 centimeters.

But whereas Al's makes about a two centimeter imprint, just literally glides on the ocean floor.

So we fire a jet of water, separate it out, pump it up.

And eventually, I anticipate we'll have a lot of production vessels out there.

We then offload them.

You know, the analogy, two analogies I use.

One is they're like golf balls on a driving range.

We've got to pick them up with the greatest efficiency and the lightest, lowest impact.

And then it's a little bit like harvesting a paddock of wheat.

You know, you just keep harvesting.

And then the bin pulls up alongside.

In our case, it'll be a bulk carrier.

We offload the nodules.

It goes off to port.