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Enormous deep-sea volcano filmed by OSU researchers!

submitted by Doc_M

1 decade 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

From National Geographic:
The science team, led by Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University, reports the volcano has been growing considerably in the last three years.

Chadwick says the volcano has expanded 131 feet in height and nearly a thousand feed in width, about as tall as a 12-story building and as wide as a city block.
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NW Rota-1 is about 1,700 feet below sea level, and the pressure of the ocean keeps the energy released from the volcano from becoming too explosive, allowing the remote vehicle, Jason, to get close.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090507-guam-underseavolcano-video.html

11 Comments

The shrimp at the end reminded me of James Cameron's Aliens of the Deep.

So many parts of the ocean floor are truly the last unexplored territory on earth. How long before people can go down there in liquid-filled suits, The Abyss style?

Awesome.

It was difficult to get any sense of scale from this video. I was not impressed in the slightest.

^Try to use your imagination a bit. It is a very impressive and unique sight. No one has ever recorded this before in this size at this depth. You should at least be able to appreciate the discovery without having a meter stick out there in the water near the volcano at 1700 feet below the surface of the ocean...

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