PDF · 2022
Technical note
The oceanographic methods and assumptions behind the plume scenarios.
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Pacific Ocean / A visual investigation
BLUE
PERIL
What could deep-sea mining
mean for a living ocean?
Still from the campaign previewFootage: Schmidt Ocean Institute
Science. Spatial analysis. Pacific voices.
INTERPRT × Deep Sea Mining Campaign × Ozeanien-Dialog
Beyond the mining site
The ocean does not
stop at a boundary.
Blue Peril brings a remote industrial frontier into view.
The 2022 investigation combines oceanographic modeling and spatial analysis to explore potential harm to deep-sea ecosystems and Pacific communities.
Follow the film, examine its methods, and use the campaign’s original materials to continue the conversation.
Inside the investigation ↗A finding from the 2022 scenario3months
A plume with
far-reaching consequences.
The campaign’s modeled midwater-discharge scenario predicts sediment reaching waters around Hawaiʻi and the northern Line Islands within three months.
A conditional model prediction, not a measurement of existing pollution. Read the assumptions and limitations alongside the result.
Understand the scenario ↗What is at stake
One connected ocean.
01 / SeafloorLife on
Sediment
Livelihoods,
Life on
the deep seabed
Nodules are part of a habitat, not simply a mineral deposit.
02 / Water columnSediment
on the move
Disturbance and discharge connect a mine to the surrounding ocean.
03 / Pacific peoplesLivelihoods,
identity & consent
The stakes extend to the people whose lives are tied to the Pacific.
Read the evidence
Go beyond the film.
PDF · 2020
Scientific literature review
Predicting the impacts of mining deep-sea polymetallic nodules in the Pacific Ocean.
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PDF · 2019
Why the Rush?
A campaign report on the financial and institutional context of seabed mining in the Pacific.
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