We all know what a volcano is. It is an opening in a planets surface through which the hot gases, magma, lava and ash escape from below the surface. The world volcano is derived from the name of Roman God of Fire “Vulcan”.
The British scientist recently surprised the whole world by discovering the deepest underwater volcanoes. According to the reports of National Oceanography Centre (NOC) the scientists found these volcanoes 3.1 miles deep on the ocean floor. This means that the volcanoes are almost 5000 meters below the surface of the Caribbean Sea. The vents are located in the Cayman Trough in the western Caribbean, which reaches a maximum depth of 7,500 meters. These volcanoes are given a name “Black Smoker”. The name is given after watching the videos and the photographs of the volcanoes as they were making black smoke while coming out of the surface of the deep sea.
RRS James Cook, a research vessel which holds 28 scientists and engineers from seven nations set to discover these vents on 21st March. After discovering these deep underwater vents the scientists further explained that each vent is roughly of the size of a football stadium. You can just imaging how much huge they are. The NOC geochemist Dough Connelly, Principal Scientist of the expedition, says: “we hope our discovery will yield new insights into biogeochemical important elements in one of the most extreme naturally occurring environments on our planet”.
A few weeks ago NASA scientists found a shrimp-like creature 600 feet below the Arctic Ice. It was really interesting to find a living creature deep in such frozen conditions. This led the NASA scientists to further research life in other outer space frozen moons. Inspired from the NASA scientists the British scientists who discovered the vents are looking forward to do some more research about the affects of these deep underwater vents on marine life. They believe that they can make some more discoveries and bring forward useful research for the knowledge of the world.
