Ever seen fire and smoke under water before? Oceanographers using a remotely operated underwater vehicle discovered and recorded the first video and still images of the deepest underwater volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor. The ROV Jason vehicle captured the powerful event nearly 1.2 km (4,000 feet) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in the "Ring of Fire" region, near Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. "It was very exciting. We've never seen anything like that on the ocean floor," said Bob Embley, a marine geologist with NOAA, who described the event an underwater Fourth of July. "When we started to see red flashes of light, everyone was extremely excited. Then we had to get down to the work of actually understanding of what we were seeing."
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