When Hurricane Yolanda swept across the Amarena Sea, the operator of its first commercial seabed mine reported a contained incident. Weeks later, shellfish were dying along the shores of the Cornuchuan Plains. Now the company and the authority that licensed it stand before the High Court of Mir. What unfolds here will decide not only what happened beneath the storm, but who answers when a company, a regulator and the sea itself all played a part.