Can love – for marine biology and the strangest creatures of the ocean – be enough to protect the hidden, undiscovered depths of the planet from the threat of exploitation?

The deep sea: the last unknown region on Earth. Here, biologists marvel at the enigmatic flora and fauna that seem to come from another planet: the depths of the oceans are reminiscent of space. 

The extraterrestrial and strange life forms in the darkness capture the imagination. However, the time when the deep sea was the last pristine natural area on Earth may be coming to an end, as deep-sea mining threatens the fragile ecosystems.