Offshore contractor Allseas, one of the shareholders DeepGreen, together with the canadian start-up for deep-sea mining is developing a system of collecting minerals for the extraction of polymetallic nodules from the ocean floor and carrying them to the surface.
Company Allseas has purchased the former drill ship Vitoria 10 000 with a length of 228 meters, a width of 42 meters and can accommodate up to 200 people.
the Ship will be converted to accommodate a pilot system for the collection of inclusions of metals, which is currently being developed by Allseas.
Founder and President of Allseas Edward Herem said, "Deep sea collection of polymetallic nodules presents a new frontier and an exciting new Chapter in the history of Allseas. Through our offshore expertise and innovative capabilities, we can develop creative technical solutions for this new industry."
Allseas expects that the vessel will be ready to pilot test the collection of nodules by mid-2021.
After nodules will be collected and delivered to the Bank, they will be processed using metallurgical flowsheet developed DeepGreen.
In partnership with the world's leading oceanologists DeepGreen said that working on the world's largest comprehensive research program to study the oceans from the surface to the seabed, in order to fully understand the impact of collecting nodules from the ocean floor that bothers critics of the project.
