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Shoestring budget doesn’t stop URI oceanography student from making discoveries inside underwater ‘shark-cano’ (University of ...

Edit Public Technologies 17 Dec 2015
(Source. University of Rhode Island). Media Contact. Todd McLeish, 401-874-7892. NARRAGANSETT, R.I ... But a University of Rhode Island graduate student has figured out how to do it on the cheap and still make exciting discoveries ... Phillips is most proud of how he used an electric fishing reel with donated line instead of an expensive winch to lower and raise cameras and oceanographic instruments into the crater of Kavachi volcano ... (noodl....

Sharks Found Inside An Active Volcano… Alive

Edit Huffington Post 14 Jul 2015
Welcome to Kavachi, a volcano located in the Southwest Pacific Ocean, in the Solomon Islands. Its first recorded eruption was in 1939, and the most recent eruption occurred in January of 2014. In addition to venting the Earth's fiery innards, Kavachi also serves as a home for sea creatures, as National Geographicreported.  .   ... It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website....

Scientists puzzled by video: Live hammerhead sharks in scalding volcanic waters

Edit The Examiner 13 Jul 2015
Marine biologists have discovered -- via video footage -- hammerhead sharks and other oceanic beasts inside the caldera of the active underwater volcano, Kavachi, and the finding has them perplexed ... Not only should they not be in the Kavachi caldera, an active volcanic crater, both species of shark seemed quite content swimming through scalding waters (due to volcanic vents) that reach temperatures of 800 degrees Fahrenheit....

Sharks have been discovered living inside an active volcano

Edit Inhabitat 13 Jul 2015
a phenomenon that can only reasonably be termed a “sharkcano.” A group of scientists surveying Kavachi, a very active volcano 60 feet below the ocean’s surface near the Solomon Islands, were stunned to discover that there are two species of shark living in the hot, highly acidic waters within the crater....

Sharkcano'

Edit Topix 13 Jul 2015
It's National Geographic's term for what some researchers found way out in the Solomon Islands of the Pacific ocean. Tehy were out to measure a volcano named Kavachi, document about its chemical and biological processes and such.

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Terrifying heat-proof sharks found living inside scalding hot, acid-spewing VOLCANO

Edit Topix 13 Jul 2015
Scientists were astonished to see the fearsome - and apparently heat-proof - creatures circling "in numbers" in the deep sea danger zone. The hardy hammerheads were caught on camera inside the Kavachi volcano, near the Solomon Islands, which spews out mega-hot acid.

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They Found a Shark Near an Underwater Volcano and Now We Can Never Feel Safe

Edit Topix 13 Jul 2015
Brennan Phillips is a Ph.D. student who specializes in underwater volcanoes - which is awesome - at the University of Rhode Island. In January of this year, Phillips and his team dropped a camera about 12 miles away from an underwater volcano called Kavachi, around the Solomon Islands, east of Papua New Guinea ... ....

‘Sharkcano': Sharks Filmed Swimming In Hot Acidic Water Of Active Kavachi Volcano Baffles Scientific Expedition [Video]

Edit The Inquisitr 11 Jul 2015
According to experts, volcanoes such as Kavachi could release volcanic material with temperatures as high as 800 degrees Fahrenheit ... Kavachi – also known as Rejo te Kavachi or Kavachi’s Oven – is a very active volcano that has erupted more than ten times since the 1970s ... But one of the ways you can tell that Kavachi is erupting is that you can actually hear it—both on the surface and underwater....

Sharks discovered in underwater volcano (+video)

Edit NZ Herald 11 Jul 2015
Sharks are not something you'd generally expect to find in an underwater volcano. And yet, a team of researchers who dropped a camera into the crater of Kavachi, an active, underwater volcano near the Solomon Islands, were surprised... ....

Sharks discovered in underwater volcano

Edit Topix 11 Jul 2015
Sharks are not something you'd generally expect to find in an underwater volcano. And yet, a team of researchers who dropped a camera into the crater of Kavachi, an active, underwater volcano near the Solomon Islands, were surprised to discover that at least two species of sharks appear to live there.

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Sharks filmed swimming inside active Kavachi volcano crater near Solomon Islands

Edit The Daily Mail 10 Jul 2015
The video (grab pictured) was recorded by ocean engineer Brennan Phillips and a team of researchers in and around the active underwater volcano Kavachi, near the Solomon Islands. ....

Amazing footage of sharks swimming in boiling water around a volcano is completely baffling scientists

Edit Yahoo Daily News 10 Jul 2015
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 ... Sharks!. View gallery ... "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 ... "Do they leave?" Phillips asks ... ....

A bunch of sharks surprised researchers by hanging out in an underwater volcano

Edit Topix 10 Jul 2015
Sharks are not something you'd generally expect to find in an underwater volcano. And yet, a team of researchers who dropped a camera into the crater of Kavachi , an active, underwater volcano near the Solomon Islands, were surprised to discover that at least two species of sharks appear to live there.

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