As scientists find weird wonders, miners and governments are looking at other riches. What’s at stake way beneath the waves?
will put most of the profit in company pockets. The ISA did not respond to questions or requests for an interview, but has previously defended its integrity and independence.using the sea’s riches to correct inequality
The nodules in deep plains such as the CCZ are as crucial to ecosystems as trees in a forest, Dr Helen Scales writes– such as nurseries for octopuses, and hiding places for worms. “When we go down for our studies, about half of the large animals we see depend on them,” says Drazen, who has conducted baseline ecosystem research funded by TMC. “And they won’t grow back for millions of years.”
A goblin shark, with teeth that snatch squid and octopus and its snout covered in sensors for hunting in the dark.TMC and other prospective miners say they have invested millions of dollars in deep sea research and have developed technology to minimise disruption, with artificial intelligence and sensors to monitor activity down in the deep. TMC’s Australian chief executive, Gerard Barron, stresses many concerns about mining remain speculation.
Renee Grogan spent a decade in the Australian mining industry before joining Impossible Metals – a start-up that promises to solve some of deep sea mining’s environmental risks through clever robotics. “We’re never going to understand all the animals that live in the sediment,” she says. “So we have to engineer in a way to protect them.
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