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Posted on 07/10/2015 4:11:20 PM PDT by ETL
Full title: Amazing footage of sharks swimming in boiling water around a volcano is completely baffling scientists
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Brennan Phillips and some colleagues were recently on an expedition to Kavachi volcano, an active underwater volcano near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. But they weren't prepared for what they saw deep inside the volcanic crater:
Sharks!
Hammerheads and silky sharks, to be specific, contentedly swimming around despite the sizzling water temperatures and biting acidity.
Volcanic vents such as these can release fluids above 800 degrees Fahrenheit and have a similar acidity to vinegar, according to the Marine Education Society of Australasia.
"The idea of there being large animals like sharks hanging out and living inside the caldera of the volcano conflicts with what we know about Kavachi, which is that it erupts," Phillips, a biological oceanography Ph.D. student at the University of Rhode Island, says in a YouTube video.
This brings up some perplexing questions about what the animals do if the volcano decides to wake up:
"Do they leave?" Phillips asks. "Do they have some sign that it's about to erupt? Do they blow up sky-high in little bits?"
The volcano wasn't erupting when Phillips' team arrived, meaning it was safe to drop an 80-pound camera into the water to take a look around. After about an hour of recording, the team fished the camera out and watched the video.
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Who’d have figured sharks liked their food cooked.
Made a lot hotter by the inhabitant!
They don’t call them “Hammerheads” for nothing. They apparently aren’t overstocked in the brain dept.
Paging LAZ!
“Do they leave?” Phillips asks. “Do they have some sign that it’s about to erupt? Do they blow up sky-high in little bits?”
Sharkano!
Shark fin soup, au naturel.
Lol! Is he the only guy around here interested in hot girls in hot tubs? I hope not! :)
Looking for a hot catch.
Sharks ain’t dumb.
I’m not sure if that’s a basking shark or a silky shark.
Sharks!
Said in a high squeaky voice?
Not only will we need a bigger boat...it's going to have be well insulated.
So...which one is trying to get the other?
does that fox ever land that fish...just curious....
Not only do we have to worry about sharknados we now have to worry about sharknamis. Great, now what do I tell the kids?
You could have kept that one to yourself.
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