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Commitments and Contingencies | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2016
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Commitments and Contingencies | NOTE G – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES Legal Proceedings The Company may be subject to a variety of claims and suits that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of business. We are currently not a party to any litigation. Contingency During March 2016, our Board of Directors approved the grant and issuance of 3.0 million new equity shares of Oceanica Resources, S.R.L. to two attorneys for their future services. This equity is only issuable upon the Mexican’s government approval of the Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”) for our Mexican subsidiary. The EIA has not been approved as of the date of this report. This grant of new shares was also approved by the Administrators of Oceanica Resources, S.R.L. Going Concern Consideration We have experienced several years of net losses and may continue to do so. Our ability to generate net income or positive cash flows for the remainder of 2016 or the following twelve months is dependent upon our success in chartering our marine equipment and services to third parties, monetizing our interests in mineral exploration entities, collecting on amounts owed to us, generating income from other project or asset based financing, and completing the MINOSA/Penelope equity financing transaction approved by our stockholders on June 9, 2015. Our 2016 business plan requires us to generate new cash inflows during 2016 to effectively allow us to perform our planned projects. We plan to generate new cash inflows through the chartering of our equipment and services, the monetization of our receivables and equity stakes in seabed mineral companies, financings, syndications or other partnership opportunities. One or more of the planned opportunities for raising cash may not be realized to the extent needed to meet our desired projected business plan requirements, which may require us to follow a contingency business plan that is based on curtailed expenses and requires less cash inflows. We may not be able to maintain compliance with NASDAQ’s continued listing requirements, which could lead to a de-listing from NASDAQ and move to a different quotation service. This may have a negative impact on our ability to raise funds. On April 11, 2016 our market capitalization value fell below $35.0 million, the required minimum for continued listing of our stock on NASDAQ. Maintaining a market capitalization of at least $35.0 million for a minimum of ten consecutive business days before November 21, 2016 will permit us to remain listed. Management is working on multiple initiatives that could have the effect of curing this deficiency, however, we cannot provide any assurance the deficiency will be resolved. Initiatives include generating new business results with high positive impact and ongoing efforts to support the environmental application approval process for the Don Diego project, with the goal of approval in the second half of 2016. On March 11, 2015, we entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with Minera del Norte S.A. de c.v. (“MINOSA”) and Penelope Mining LLC (“Penelope”), an affiliate of MINOSA, pursuant to which Penelope agreed to invest up to $101 million over three years in convertible preferred stock of Odyssey. This equity financing is subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including the approval of our stockholders, which occurred on June 9, 2015. MINOSA and Penelope are currently under no obligation to make the preferred share equity investments. (See Item 2, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—General Discussion 2015—Financings.) Our consolidated non-restricted cash balance at June 30, 2016 was $1.8 million, which is insufficient to support operations through the end of 2016. We have a working capital deficit at June 30, 2016 of $20.7 million. We sold a substantial part of our assets to Monaco and its affiliates on December 10, 2015 and we have pledged the majority of our remaining assets to MINOSA and its affiliates, and to Monaco, leaving us with few opportunities to raise additional funds based on our balance sheet. The total consolidated book value of our assets was $6.8 million at June 30, 2016 and the fair market value of these assets may differ from their net carrying book value. Even though we executed the above noted financing arrangements, Penelope must purchase the shares for us to be able to complete the equity component of the transaction. The Penelope equity transaction is heavily dependent on the outcome of our subsidiary’s application approval process for an environmental permit to commercially develop a mineralized phosphate deposit in Mexico’s exclusive economic zone in the Pacific ocean. The environmental permit application filed in June 2015 was denied on April 8, 2016. We continue to pursue approval of the environmental permit for the dredging and extraction of the phosphate sands off the western coast of Mexico, but the April 2016 decision has delayed our expected cash inflows from this project. Therefore, the factors noted above raise doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Our consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to the amounts and classification of assets and liabilities that may be necessary should we be unable to continue as a going concern.

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