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Members of environmental activist group Greenpeace scaled a ship docked at Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on December 10 in a protest against deep-sea mining as governments met in Jamaica “to discuss opening up the seafloor to mining,” the group said.Footage from Greenpeace showed the activists approaching the ship, named the Hidden Gem, on a boat, before rappelling up the side of the ship and unfurling banners reading: “No Deep Sea Mining”.The Hidden Gem, a 228-meter-long former drilling ship operated by The Metals Company, arrived in Rotterdam on September 21.The Metals Company said it would be converted “into what is expected to be the first ship classified as a sub-sea mining vessel by the American Bureau of Shipping,” a maritime classification society.Metals Company CEO and Chairman Gerard Bannon said the ship would be tested during a “pilot mining project in 2022.” According to the Canadian company’s website, the ship would be seeking “metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules” to make electric vehicle batteries.Greenpeace Netherlands activist Samuel Gosschal, who took part in the protest in Rotterdam, said, “Make no mistake, this monster machine is built for profit: nothing else.