"Whoa!" Rare Videotape of Volcano Erupting Underwater, on Ocean
Floor
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NBC Nightly News
John Seigenthaler/Mark
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05/27/2006
05/27/2006
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Video News Report
NBCUniversal Media,
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2006
00:02:23
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Underwater cameras capture a rare sight: a volcano erupting, 1800 feet below the ocean surface; more
than half volcanic activity on earth occurs below the ocean.
Keywords
Volcano, Volcanoes, Eruption, Underwater, Ocean Floor, Activity, Volcanic, Pressure, Vent, Deep Sea,
Organism, Species, New, Shrimp, Life, Origins, Samples, Videotape, Rare, Recording, Audio, Sound,
Camera, Remote Control, Ring of Fire, Tectonics, Marine Science, Island, Guam, NOAA, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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""Whoa!" Rare Videotape of Volcano Erupting Underwater, on Ocean Floor." Mark Mullen,
correspondent. NBC Nightly News. NBCUniversal Media. 27 May 2006. NBC Learn. Web. 29 January
2015
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Mullen, M. (Reporter), & Seigenthaler, J. (Anchor). 2006, May 27. "Whoa!" Rare Videotape of Volcano
Erupting Underwater, on Ocean Floor. [Television series episode]. NBC Nightly News. Retrieved from
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Transcript
"Whoa!" Rare Videotape of Volcano Erupting Underwater, on Ocean Floor
JOHN SEIGENTHALER, anchor:
NBC News IN DEPTH tonight, the sudden power of nature. While the world keeps an eye on Indonesia's
Mount Merapi, most active volcanoes are on the ocean floor, hidden far from view until now. This week
scientists got a rare and close-up look at one underwater volcano erupting in full fury.
Here's NBC's Mark Mullens.
MARK MULLEN reporting:
A rare and remarkable combination of beauty and violence 1800 feet below the ocean's surface.
Offscreen Voice: Oh, look at that. Holy cow.
MULLEN: A volcano erupting under water. The reaction you hear from the marine scientists watching all
of this is not exaggerating.
Voice: Whoa! Holy moly...
MULLEN: Because never before has anyone witnessed, much less videotaped, a full-scale glowing redrock eruption like this one, or even recorded its sound.
Mr. ROBERT EMBLEY (NOAA Geologist): More than half of the earth's volcanic activity, as much as
maybe three-quarters of it, is occurring below the ocean.
MULLEN: Part of the series of volcanos along the so-called Ring of Fire, this underwater volcano, called
Northwest Rota-1, is near the South Pacific island of Guam.
An eruption like this one on land would typically send people running for cover. But scientists from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were able to move their remote control camera as
close as 10 feet from the vent because the erupting was so deep underwater.
Ms. SHARON WALKER (NOAA Oceanographer): And that exerts a great deal of pressure, and it helps
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to subdue the power of the eruption.
MULLEN: Giving scientists a chance to collect volcanic samples and also new species of organisms,
including shrimp, that could provide clues to the first life on earth.
Ms. WALKER: The organisms that live in the deep-sea vents are thriving in very, very hostile
environments, and the environments that they thrive in may be more similar to conditions at the beginning
of time on earth.
MULLEN: Like some underwater volcanos, this one may keep erupting until it becomes an island, much
as Guam and Hawaii did. Even if real estate developers have to wait 1,000 years to get their hands on it....
Voice: Whoa!
MULLEN: ...scientists, eager to learn more about volcanos, have plenty to build on now. Mark Mullen,
NBC News, Los Angeles.
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