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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle and wires

Deep sea miners turn water hoses on Greenpeace activists in the Pacific

Sailors on the Coco turn their water hoses on Greenpeace protestors.
Sailors on the Coco turn their water hoses on Greenpeace protestors. Photograph: Martin Katz/Greenpeace

Deep sea miners have turned water hoses on Greenpeace activists attempting to block their prospecting in the Pacific Ocean, according to footage released by the NGO.

For the past week, an international team of Greenpeace activists have been using canoes and dinghies to obstruct the Coco, a deep sea mining exploration vessel, as it collects data to file for a mining permit for waters between Mexico and Hawaii.

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