Company: TMCWW
Filing Date: 2025-09-02
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-086489
Chunk: 1

Company: TMC the metals Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-02
Form: S-8
Chunk 1
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<div align='center'>EXPLANATORY NOTE</div>

This Registration Statement
registers additional securities of the same class as other securities for which the registration statements filed on Form S-8 (SEC
File Nos. 333-261221, 333-265319, 333-270875, 333-278222 and 333-286191) of TMC the metals company Inc. (the “Registrant”)
are effective. The additional securities are 40,000,000 Common Shares of the Registrant reserved for issuance under the 2021 Incentive
Equity Plan, as amended, as a result of an amendment to the plan as approved by the shareholders on August 28, 2025. The information
contained in the Registrant’s registration statements on Form S-8 (SEC File Nos. 333-261221, 333-265319, 333-270875, 333-278222
and 333-286191) is hereby incorporated by reference pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8.

<div align='center'>PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>

| Item 8. | Exhibits. |

| Exhibit 
 Number  |     | Exhibit Description                                                       |     | Filed    
 Herewith |     | Incorporated          
 by                    
 Reference herein from 
 Form or Schedule      |     | Filing    
 Date      |     | SEC       
 File/     
 Reg.      
 Number    |
| 4.1     |     | Notice of Articles of TMC the metals company                              
 Inc.                                                                      |     |          |     | Form 10-Q             
 (Exhibit 3.1)         |     | 8/14/2025 |     | 001-39281 |
| 4.2     |     | Articles of TMC the metals company Inc.                                   |     |          |     | Form 8-K              
 (Exhibit 3.2)         |     | 9/15/2021 |     | 001-39281 |
| 4.3     |     | Amendment to Company’s Articles, adopted                                  
 May 29, 2025                                                              |     |          |     | Form 8-K              
 (Exhibit 3.1)         |     | 6/4/2025  |     | 001-39281 |
| 4.4     |     | TMC the metals company Inc. Common Share