Willem Marks

in laboratories in australia which is not that far away from papua new guinea but it's still a fair old haul and then probably five to ten times as much as they're bringing on deck they're digging up and then depositing just a few yards away in these kinds of stockpiles and i said well what are you guys doing that for and they said we hope that when we come back it'll make it much faster to mine it later on and since this device they're using to pull it up on deck goes up and down

a mile or so each time, it makes sense to do a lot of it down at that depth while they're down there before yanking it up each time, which they did every 12 hours or so.

a mile or so each time, it makes sense to do a lot of it down at that depth while they're down there before yanking it up each time, which they did every 12 hours or so.

a mile or so each time, it makes sense to do a lot of it down at that depth while they're down there before yanking it up each time, which they did every 12 hours or so.

Yeah, it's like that scene in Toy Story. Yeah. Exactly that. Where they're sending this down on this huge winch next to the claw, the grabbing device. They've then got this underwater vehicle. And that attaches itself onto the claw to help guide it. And so once they've maneuvered the claw into the position they want to grab some of the seafloor, it just yanks shut.

Yeah, it's like that scene in Toy Story. Yeah. Exactly that. Where they're sending this down on this huge winch next to the claw, the grabbing device. They've then got this underwater vehicle. And that attaches itself onto the claw to help guide it. And so once they've maneuvered the claw into the position they want to grab some of the seafloor, it just yanks shut.

Yeah, it's like that scene in Toy Story. Yeah. Exactly that. Where they're sending this down on this huge winch next to the claw, the grabbing device. They've then got this underwater vehicle. And that attaches itself onto the claw to help guide it. And so once they've maneuvered the claw into the position they want to grab some of the seafloor, it just yanks shut.

And once they've got it securely fastened inside the jaws of that claw, that grabber, It goes up to the surface a mile above.

And once they've got it securely fastened inside the jaws of that claw, that grabber, It goes up to the surface a mile above.

And once they've got it securely fastened inside the jaws of that claw, that grabber, It goes up to the surface a mile above.

It's a good question. And so, you know, we had a limited time on board. It's hard for me to talk about every single time this happened. But given that while we were there, This claw was coming up every 12 hours. They spent a lot of time making sure that the load inside the jaws of it were securely fastened before they moved it. But at least one occasion I saw that it hadn't fully locked closed.

It's a good question. And so, you know, we had a limited time on board. It's hard for me to talk about every single time this happened. But given that while we were there, This claw was coming up every 12 hours. They spent a lot of time making sure that the load inside the jaws of it were securely fastened before they moved it. But at least one occasion I saw that it hadn't fully locked closed.

It's a good question. And so, you know, we had a limited time on board. It's hard for me to talk about every single time this happened. But given that while we were there, This claw was coming up every 12 hours. They spent a lot of time making sure that the load inside the jaws of it were securely fastened before they moved it. But at least one occasion I saw that it hadn't fully locked closed.

It's hard to see down there. It's dark. There's a lot of kind of silk swirling around. And by the time it got to the surface on one occasion, it was clear that the jaws hadn't locked and a lot of the stuff inside had fallen out on the way up to the surface.

It's hard to see down there. It's dark. There's a lot of kind of silk swirling around. And by the time it got to the surface on one occasion, it was clear that the jaws hadn't locked and a lot of the stuff inside had fallen out on the way up to the surface.

It's hard to see down there. It's dark. There's a lot of kind of silk swirling around. And by the time it got to the surface on one occasion, it was clear that the jaws hadn't locked and a lot of the stuff inside had fallen out on the way up to the surface.

It is, and not just amongst climate activists, but also amongst many of the scientists who've looked at the feasibility of deep sea mining. And this has been an industry that's been studied for quite some time, even though it's not yet really taken off. There are two ways to sort of think about this. One is the disruption right on the surface.

It is, and not just amongst climate activists, but also amongst many of the scientists who've looked at the feasibility of deep sea mining. And this has been an industry that's been studied for quite some time, even though it's not yet really taken off. There are two ways to sort of think about this. One is the disruption right on the surface.

It is, and not just amongst climate activists, but also amongst many of the scientists who've looked at the feasibility of deep sea mining. And this has been an industry that's been studied for quite some time, even though it's not yet really taken off. There are two ways to sort of think about this. One is the disruption right on the surface.

And in this kind of deposit, they're looking primarily for copper, bit of gold, bit of silver. The rock that forms the bed there of the sea floor is rich in these metals because essentially it's come out of the Earth's crust. And then the second concern is about what happens as this material travels to the surface.