They did that with whaling. Except it wasn't adrenochrome. It was whale oil. In the 1800s. It powered almost everything that coal didn't. But you must be thinking of whale puke. It is liquid gold. Worth millions. Back then you had to beat it out of the whale.

As far as the film, on my not to watch list. It looked fake and gay and narrative infused. At what point. They're on land now it's the ocean. Omg stop it. I am watching a Syfi. Not bullshit. Woke crap.

I watch a different Disney for the ocean. One with less CGI.

I mean so the first film had this stuff they were mining. It had a reason. This time let's do the Ocean because ecology not story. Did they finish the story. The miners aren't coming back to get the valuable ore. It's ocean time because I mean. Is it connected into the fungal grid, bet they made the coral binary. Or simply because sell some propaganda. Cash in on the hypocrisy. They're dredging our oceans for stuff to power his avatar.

Idiot down vote. You liked it so much. I don't even want to watch. You made a gay dumb topic. Fishguts are worth more than the brains, amino acids. The blubber had oil used for soaps and paraffin. The vomit makes perfumes of the richest kinds. They have been fucking with various stuff like the topic. But it's experimental medicines, and it hasn't turned up shit. They keep doing this, Deep Blue Sea, the sharks. Others like that Disney this year with the snakes, alzhiemers. Or there's Covid. But it syfi today is done by mice. If perfected by mice moves up to bigger livestock. Until they replicate it chemically. It isn't adrenochrome.