FRANCE: A group of sea explorers were surprised to find “sharkcanoes” just hanging out in the boiling and acidic waters of an active submarine volcano area.
Brennan Phillips led an expedition to Kavachi near the Solomon Islands in an aim to make a map of its peak and study the chemical plumes, geology and biology of the extremely dangerous environment.
In an already dangerous environment where an underwater volcanic eruption could occur any time, Phillips had least expected to see sharks. How and why the sharks got there nobody really knows.
“One of the ways you can tell that Kavachi is erupting is that you can actually hear it—both on the surface and underwater,” said Phillips. They did not hear any rumbling which, when the volcano is about to erupt, can be heard even from 10 miles away. They set out to go straight to the rim of the crater.
That was where they deployed an underwater camera to take a closer look at Kavachi. While the team was looking at feeds from underwater, National Geographic Society engineer Brad Henning noticed that something was off when he saw a shadow of something they could not figure out at that moment. Just a couple of seconds after, a shark came gliding along into view.
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