Volcanoes beneath the Sea A Fiery Birth Last May, amazed scientists watched as lava and ash blasted through the surface of the Pacific Ocean and high into the air. They were getting a rare glimpse of a live eruption from an undersea volcano. How do these submarine volcanoes work? "Fiery birth of a new Pacific island!" read the May 24 announcement from the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO). CSIRO had sent a team of researchers to study the dormant undersea Kavachi volcano in the Solomon Islands east of Australia. They discovered that the volcano was not dormant at...