2020-11-13|Sunatori's Fantasy (Whale-Assisted Mining)

Potential Discovery or Invention

Literature search has revealed the following fact about deep-sea mining.

Deep sea mining - Wikipedia

Deep sea mining is a mineral retrieval process that takes place on the ocean floor. Ocean mining sites are usually around large areas of polymetallic nodules or active and extinct hydrothermal vents at 1 400 to 3 700 metres below the ocean's surface.

Deep sea mining - Wikipedia
Deep sea mining is a mineral retrieval process that takes place on the ocean floor. Ocean mining sites are usually around large areas of polymetallic nodules or active and extinct hydrothermal vents at 1 400 to 3 700 metres below the ocean's surface.

And the fact about whales.

Sperm whale - Wikipedia

Their circulatory system has adapted to dive at great depths, as much as 2 250 metres for up to 120 minutes.
The sperm whale brain is the largest known of any modern or extinct animal, weighing on average about 7.8 kilograms (with the smallest known weighing 6.4 kilograms and the largest known weighing 9.2 kilograms, more than five times heavier than a human's, and has a volume of about 8 000 cm3.

Whale - Wikipedia

Larger whales are also thought, to some degree, to engage in play. The southern right whale, for example, elevates their tail fluke above the water, remaining in the same position for a considerable amount of time. This is known as "sailing". It appears to be a form of play and is most commonly seen off the coast of Argentina and South Africa. Humpback whales, among others, are also known to display this behaviour.

Combining these facts together, if whales were trained to deep-dive and pick up nodules from the ocean floor, then the mining cost would be much less than sucking them with a pump.
The Whale-Assisted Mining (WAM) can become a Ph.D. thesis as well as a sci-fi & fantasy story for a book and for a movie deal.

Sperm whale - Wikipedia
Their circulatory system has adapted to dive at great depths, as much as 2 250 metres for up to 120 minutes. The sperm whale brain is the largest known of any modern or extinct animal, weighing on average about 7.8 kilograms (with the smallest known weighing 6.4 kilograms and the largest known weighing 9.2 kilograms, more than five times heavier than a human's, and has a volume of about 8 000 cm3.
Whale - Wikipedia
Larger whales are also thought, to some degree, to engage in play. The southern right whale, for example, elevates their tail fluke above the water, remaining in the same position for a considerable amount of time. This is known as "sailing". It appears to be a form of play and is most commonly seen off the coast of Argentina and South Africa. Humpback whales, among others, are also known to display this behaviour.

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