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Deep-sea mining equipment is being developed by a range of different companies and research bodies worldwide. This equipment must operate at tremendous depths, in crushing pressure, in total darkness. Here's 9 of the most interesting deep-sea mining machines!

Deep Sea Mining requires a number of items of heavy equipment to operate together at tremendous depths, whilst isolated far from land in the deep ocean.

Olympia is GSR's Production Support Vessel and platform for their bespoke hydraulic collector. It was formerly a Transocean deepwater drillship, and is currently being converted for deep sea mining

Eureka 1 is a autonomous swarm collector that has been developed by Impossible Metals. It uses image recognition and robotic arms to pick nodules.

Hidden Gem is Allsea's Production Support Vessel and platform for their bespoke hydraulic collector. It is currently licensed to The Metals Company for polymetallic nodule collection in the Clarion Clipperton Zone