The deep ocean poses formidable challenges for its spatial and visual representation, which the mining industry exploits by claiming its mining operations will be environmentally friendly. To counter the mining industry’s greenwashing, INTERPRT analyzed data shared by marine biologists to simulate mining footprints and then collaborated with an oceanographer to model the trajectory of plume particles from seabed mining in the CCZ. INTERPRT designed the results using 3D modeling software to create a multimedia advocacy tool. 

The exhibition presents Blue Peril – our advocacy video on deep-sea mining and explores some of our methodology and research behind it.  Blue Peril – demonstrates, for the first time, the vast area of the Pacific expected to be impacted by deep-sea mining and the devastation that deep seabed mining could bring to marine ecosystems and habitats.