Casson

"Deep-sea mining is not a climate solution," says the organisation's lead oceans campaigner, Louisa Casson.

They will remain camped on the main crane used to deploy and retrieve equipment from the water until The Metals Company agrees to leave, according to Louisa Casson, head of Greenpeace’s campaign against deep-sea mining.

“We will continue to try and disrupt as much as we can, because we are very concerned that this is a tick-box exercise that is purely designed to gather data so they can put in a mining application next year,” Casson said Sunday, from a Greenpeace ship near Coco.

Casson said the company’s actions suggest that is not true.

“That they are doing this in the interest of science is really very questionable,” said Casson.