TMC and our subsidiary, NORI, are proud to be among the largest funders of research enabling the discovery of new species on the abyssal plain in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ). In March 2023, NORI submitted a first tranche of our environmental baseline data to the ISA’s ‘DeepData’ platform, contributing over 270,000 biological occurrences to the database, representing the largest molecular-based assessment of quantitative CCZ macrofaunal box cores to date. Analysis of a further 40 b...