Deepest underwater Volcano may harbor unknown creatures!!!
NatGeoThree miles (five kilometers) below the surface of the
Caribbean Sea (map), great volcanic chimneys gush subterranean
water hot enough to melt lead. Found via robotic submersibles on
April 6, these two-story-tall "black smokers" are the world's
deepest known hydrothermal vents, scientists announced from
aboard a research ship Sunday. "It was like wandering across the
surface of another world," geochemist Bramley Murton, speaking
in a press statement, said of steering a submersible around the
record-breaking volcanic vents. "The rainbow hues of the mineral
spires and the fluorescent blues of the microbial mats covering
them were like nothing I had ever seen before," said Murton,
who, like the rest of the team, works with the U.K.'s National
Oceanography Centre. The answer will have to wait. "We've only
just started to study the marine life at this site and don't yet
have a full picture of it," marine biologist Jon Copley told
National Geographic