Great shot of Indonesia’s Gunung Merapi erupting in the crepuscular light of dawn. From a BBC slide show of last Tuesday’s interesting photographs.

Great shot of Indonesia’s Gunung Merapi erupting in the crepuscular light of dawn. From a BBC slide show of last Tuesday’s interesting photographs.
The Pacific Daily News ran this story yesterday. A team of US and Japanese scientists filmed an undersea volcano just north of Guam using a deep sea remote submersible. The video footage is very cool, showing yellow smokey ash and particulate matter falling from just a few feet away. It is even possible to catch a glimpse of molten lava occasionally.
This is not the volcano on Anatahan Island, which erupted for a couple years. This is an undersea volcano called NW Rota 1, which lies 1,800 feet under the surface of the ocean. 60 miles north of Guam. I vaguely remember hearing about this volcano several years ago, when dead fish and fizzing, sulfurous water were noticed by fishermen passing above the fumarole.