Violet Earth Ocean Restoration Disk Pilot Study
"Our Oceans are Signaling Collapse. We must Act Now"
Dr. Erica Gelsey
We have turned Earth’s greatest life‑support system into a landfill.
Every wave now carries the residue of our excess — plastics, chemicals, and decay — choking the very waters that feed us. The ocean is no longer absorbing our waste; it’s returning it.
If we fail to clean it, we fail to breathe, to eat, to live.
This is not an environmental issue — it’s a survival countdown.
Our technology doesn’t just clean the ocean — it restores the biogeochemical engine that feeds billions, stabilizes the climate, and underpins every major global market.
Tank Installation for Ocean Disk Installations
Our Pilot Study Design for the Benthic Effervescent Ocean Restoration Disks (BEORD) includes the installation of 3 large and 2 small glass and reinforced stainless steel tanks below ground, with access to each the tanks from aboveground. Our BEORD Disks come in small, medium and large. With the medium and large disks requiring a crane for placement.
Manufacturing the BEORD
The BEORD is built as a layered mineral‑engineered composite, designed to activate on the seafloor, release alkalinity, and accelerate CO₂ conversion into stable carbonates.
The manufacturing process uses low‑temperature, low‑energy mineral casting, ensuring the disk is strong enough for deployment yet fully degradable in marine conditions.
Deployment of Disks to Tanks
Placement of the BEORD Disks will require a small crane to hoist the BEORDS into the tanks carefully so they do not crack or break apart.
Plumbing the ocean water to the tanks
We will plumb ocean water in accordance with our engineer's specifications. We may choose to do so immediately following a rain event when there is brown water intrusion to really test the BEORD disks efficiency in cleaning. No marine life will be used during this testing phase.
Violet Earth will be able to visually and analytically sample the tanks, as well as 24-hour camera monitoring in real-time.
Sampling and Analysis Plan
Violet Earth Scientists have prepared an aggressive sampling plan for the BEORD. Our oceans are in bad shape and our sampling and analysis plan must be able to QUANTIFY results, both visually and analytically. The ocean is vast and heavily contaminated, yet we do not want to worsen the conditions. The Sampling and Analysis Plan will be submitted to the proper regulatory authorities for approval. Samples include, but are not limited to:
*Quantify per‑disk alkalinity regeneration rate (ΔTA / time).
*Determine CO₂ drawdown efficiency via DIC and pCO₂ correlation.
*Characterize erosion kinetics and mineral dissolution profiles.
*Validate long‑term stability and absence of harmful byproducts.
*Generate a regulator‑ready dataset for carbon‑credit and environmental compliance frameworks.
Degradation Period is 12-18 Months
Our situation is so dire that we have made a commitment to providing solutions that work in a short time frame. Parts of the ocean are so contaminated other treatment layers may be added to the BEORD by design. We will be generating a tremendous amount of data in 12-18 months as we watch how the BEORD behaves in contaminated ocean water.
A freshwater layer will be added to the larger tanks to ensure that our BEORD fully mixes and measure the salinity post mixing ocean water with freshwater. This includes measuring each of the disks separately to see how fast they are depleting.
24- hour cameras will be placed on the tanks to watch the degradation in real-time. These may be posted to the web so that regulators and stakeholders may check on the progress from the comfort of their home or office.
Phase 2- Ocean Deployment
Once we have collected 12-18 months of data, a final report will be prepared to discuss and explain the results to regulatory agencies and stakeholders. By this time (with excellent results) we will propose ocean reef deployment, What Violet Earth Scientists want to be able to say, in one clean paragraph:
“In a 12–18‑month, five‑tank pilot, BEORD disks delivered X–Y mol alkalinity per disk with Z% variance, produced no harmful byproducts, maintained reef‑safe pH ranges, and showed no adverse biological effects relative to controls. The dissolution and alkalinity‑release kinetics are captured by a validated model that we can now apply to reef conditions, and our MRV protocol is already field‑ready.”