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Key points CSA Ocean Sciences deployed three moorings in the NORI exploration area to track currents, temperature and other water conditions, with the longest running 4,000 meters and the others 500 meters and 32 meters. The team collected water samples down to about 4,200 meters using a…

Key points Crew members describe offshore shifts as five days’ sail from land, with long stretches away from family. One worker likens the project to the early oil industry, calling it “the frontier of a new industry” with potential to sustain generations of jobs. Staff…

Key points Raphael Di Carlo Silva Dos Santos, from Brazil, took part in DeepGreen’s environmental expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone. His participation was part of a training program run by the International Seabed Authority.

Key points The Metals Company deployed moorings during Expedition 4A to study the deep ocean environment in the Clarion Clipperton Zone.

Key points The video is an animated 3D illustration depicting The Metals Company’s planned system for collecting polymetallic nodules from the deep sea floor. It shows the process of bringing the nodules to the surface and transporting them for processing. The company describes the…

Key points CEO Gerard Barron answers a question from Mandy Weese, HSE Advisor and Paramedic aboard the Maersk Launcher, on how he would explain DeepGreen’s work to a class of kindergarteners. Barron frames the company’s seafloor polymetallic nodules as a supply of metals needed…

Key points Lucía Alejandra Villar Muñoz, from Chile, joined DeepGreen’s environmental expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone. Her participation is part of the International Seabed Authority’s training program.

Key points DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron tells Yale/Brown lecturer Cary Krosinsky that the low-carbon transition needs significantly more metals than today’s supply. Barron says land ore grades are falling, pushing mining into more biodiverse habitats and releasing more carbon as CO2. He…

Key points The Metals Company is exploring an area of the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean roughly 4km deep. A box core’s round trip from the surface to the seabed and back takes about three hours.

Key points Nauru was the first developing country to participate in the International Seabed Authority (ISA). Nauru Minister Rennier Gadabu says the country partnered with DeepGreen to be part of the solution as the world moves away from fossil fuel industries. DeepGreen’s Chief Ocean…