Crew Sails over Erupting Volcano

The crew sails over the erupting volcano. That Happens Next Is Earth Shattering.

What is the most thrilling thing you've ever seen in the sea? We' re willing to wager you haven't seen a volcano. Then there is the crew of the Maiken, a boat that sailed the South Pacific in 2006 and saw something that virtually no one had seen before, a voyage that sometimes felt more like a fairytale than the true life - and resulted in an astonishing, recorded find that you have to see to believe.

First the crew and the crew of the Maiken realized these strange stripes in the sea. Clearly it was not a country, and nothing they had anticipated on this journey. Normally this would be a strange delusion from a cloudy sky, a spontaneous blossom of seaweed in the sea or perhaps an uncommon accumulation of other sea creatures (perhaps even an oily slick or garbage).

But the Maiken were about to come across something far more alien and less ordinary. Maiken carefully drew near to the peculiar intrusion. It was not a research ship and had no science to explore the oceans, but the crew was still inquisitive enough to take a close look. Fredrick Fransson, a Swede who had been spending a great deal of leisure in those seas, had seen something eerie:

Tonga's waters have always been a deep shade of blueness. But now the waters became disturbingly verdant, more like a lake than the open sea. As the crew was studying the incident, it seemed to make less of a purpose - at least in the beginning.

Looks like country - actually it looks like a snapping sandy shore or a deserts that emerged from the sea, which was not possible. Stranger still, the nearer the Maiken came, the more the crew recognized that this was no landing at all - it was in motion. It was the mud, or sandy, or whatever it was, with the sea breeze underneath, swaying and following the currents.

There are large parts of marine algae that can sometimes collect and do so, but it was clear that they were not marine algae, nor anything else the crew had known before. It actually did look a little like lignite. She now entered the odd space that floated in the centre of the sea, allowing her to take a much clearer look at it.

As you know, pebble stones have a tendency to submerge in and not swim.... except in very specific cases. All of a sudden, the crew began to put together what was going on. During the investigation of the swimming pebble the crew took some unbelievable pictures, like the one of their vigil, which went through the area.

Franzsson noticed that it felt like being in the heart of the Sahara and its sand dune - not at all like being at sea. Mythical fumblebum. Fumed aggregate is formed by vulcanic magma-cooled in a special way, which produces many small inclusions of bubbles and cavities, which make the aggregate floatable.

Yet not only does the stone appear in the center of the oceans... until it does. Whilst the crew of the Maiken on what appeared to be a boat that sailed across the country instead of the waters, they also came up with a hypothesis about what could happen. When a volcano would be formed under the oceans with the right temperatures and the right mineral, it could very quickly build silicate - and this silicate would hover to the surfacem.

As you can see, volcanos can be formed both under the sea and on shore - they are classed as subs. Particularly widespread is the Pacific "Ring of Fire", which encompasses the hawaii an island on which the Maiken have just travelled. Crew was looking for other evidence of vulcanic activities - in part to validate the theories, but also to celebrate because they didn't want to be sailing directly into a crowd of cooking vapor!

Luckily, they saw a trail of smokes and vapours far away from their position (now free of the odd array of pumices). While they watched, this cloud of fire was growing fast and the crew realized that a crowd was building - not a square of swimming rock, but something much bigger, actually sticking out of the sky, thick and craggy.

Hello, Vulcan! Vapour and fumes kept coming out of the sea. Indeed, it became so big that it began to block out the light - just like a volcano burst. Like a volcano it was very risky to get too near, so that the Maiken withdrew again and again....and of course with cute pictures.

Cause it was still a volcano. Submarine iguanas have a tendency to remain submerged where they act as chimneys (and are very good for marine life). Vulcan eco-systems produce warm waters, germs and mineral salts that are not normally found in the sea. So, what did this one on the planet's upper reaches do to create an isle?

According to Maiken maps, the area where the volcano originated was part of the Home Reef. Homer Reef is a large submarine mount, a very large mound that approached the sea area. Come on, little volcano! A new and very live volcano can move up so far that it breaks through the top because a mount is so near the top.

The volcano spits out strata and strata of magic that hit the seawater, cooling rapidly and creating more landmass.... until a small islet appears above the surfac. Whilst the advent of a new volcano is scarce, the best examples are the fine islands of Hawaii.

Once their lava-happy volcanos become unsettled, the island tends to vegetate quite a bit as the volcano strikes the oceans and consolidates and expands. Each of Hawaii's islets probably was shaped the way the Maiken crew saw it. Vulcan country tends to be particularly fruitful. There are not all of them with a mystical swimming pool of rock.

At times the childbirth is much more abrupt and fierce, with little advance notice - like this Tonga outbreak that brought forth a new isle. Home Reef was a calmer place, and the Maiken were far enough away when the Isle began to grow, as were the distinctive marks of a new Isle.

Volcano bursts can be abrupt and severe, but they can also last for a long while. Home Reef volcano had probably built up silently for a long period before a last big explosion pushed it to the top. Thanks to the fast photographs and the possibility of connecting wirelessly on the Maiken, this was the first outbreak creating an islands that the researchers were able to observe via satellites.

Outbreaks in 1954, 1957 and 1984 form the foundations of the new isle. Do you want to name an isle? Will they put the sweet isle on a card and give it a name? Small isles like these may land on charts, but they are hardly ever called official.

It is interesting that this stone pitch travelled through the ripples for a long while. It erupted in 2006 and 2007, almost a year later, when the coastal area of Australia began to be flushed - probably unsettling for manyurfers. Rumour has it that this 240-foot volcano will make sure no one forgets how astonishing it is!

Smells of sulphur gases were still present in the area 4 month after the outbreak. As a result of advanced communications and rapid response, a history that might otherwise have been described as laughable or an urbane myth was quickly authenticated, resulting in invaluable academic research and a very compelling history that the crew could relate to family.

So what's home reef isle like today? Last contemplated in 2008, the tide was high and the entire archipelago was covered by the sea, back to a sea mount. Nothing is more important for surviving than accessing nourishment and drinking wells.

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