Key points
- Chief Innovation and Offshore Technology Officer Rutger Bosland explains that a nodule’s journey from the seafloor to the surface vessel takes about 25 minutes.
- Nodules are picked up by nozzles, collected in a hopper, fed into a jumper, then travel 4.2 km upward to the surface vessel.
- Pre-operational surveys are conducted when arriving in the field to identify where nodules are located.
- That survey input is used to generate a mine plan that defines specific routes for the collectors to drive on the seabed.
