Beneath the Pacific, a little-known world is becoming the next industrial frontier. As demand for critical metals keeps rising and land-based mining reaches its limits, the deep seafloor is being reconsidered as a future source of raw materials.
But this remote environment is also a living ecosystem science still barely understands. In Part 1, the film explores why industry is turning to the ocean floor, and what may be at stake.
Documentary: Gold Rush in the Deep Sea
Director: Friederike Lorenz & Tamar Baumgarten-Noort
Production: Gruppe 5, ZDF, ARTE (2016)
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