Satellite imagery shows Kavachi, one of the most active submarine volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean and most known for its shark inhabitants, is showing increased plumes.
Kavachi’s marine life activity around submarine volcanoes isn’t all that special, says Bennis. It’s harder to observe the sharks in person because the submarine volcanoes are submerged.
“We see it all the time, where even just on the surface, there are people in cities built around volcanoes, or there’s this volcanic mouse species that like to live around other sorts of volcanoes in different parts of the world,” Bennis said. “So it’s completely normal for there to be sharks and other marine life around underwater volcanoes since it’s also just contributing to the ecosystem that way.
“There were just people out boating, having a good time, and they noticed that there was just this formation of an island in the middle of the ocean,” Bennis said of the 1939 encounter. “And they’re like, ‘Whoa, this is kind of weird.’ And so that is our first documented evidence of that volcanic activity.”
Sometimes submarine volcanoes can produce pumice rafts, which can indicate volcanic activity occurring below the sea. The image above shows floating pumice taken in 1973 from another submarine volcano near the Tonga Islands.
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