West Mata Underwater Volcano Eruption, 2009 (Clip 2)

(Courtesy NSF, NOAA, AIVL/WHOI)
Oceanographers using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason discovered and recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor.

Jason, designed and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the National Deep Submergence Facility, utilized a prototype, high-definition still and video camera to capture the powerful event nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

Learn more at http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&ct=162&cid=64926

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[rlindsay23]

Awesome!!!

Does this Volcano release carbon?

Maybe our government can tax it some how?

[monkey08642]

@pierrandre and you m8 and u

[pierrandre]

Amazing thing to see..

next time try not to compress video THAT MUCH before sending to youtube.. Let'em do their job... juste send UNCOMPRESSED or lossless compressed video.. such a waiste to see amazing things like this without good quality !

[normpritchett]

If it helps, the ROV's lights don't penetrate very far in the deep. I would be surprised if that were more than 30-40 feet away.

[away5]

hmmmmmmmmmmm

[luckyluke1232]

Amazing

[b7ul]

Spectacular!

[jester2281]

its the sound that does it for me ...turn the sub up then jus think of the world ending....bloody scary.......pmsl....soz

[freeharddrive]

fantastic to see.

Great Nature.

[alipaz1]

espectacular, el mundo es una maravilla.

[sovix13]

very good.