GrumpyGel
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What a fookin idiot.@GrumpyGel
New Zealand Prof Shane Cronin has just returned from snorkelling over the Tonga underwater volcano that blew its top in January
He wanted to get a closer look at Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai (HTHH), and to gather some rock samples.
The seamount produced one of the fiercest volcanic explosions in more than a century on 15 January.
It sent a plume of ash and vapour halfway to space and generated a tsunami that swept across the Pacific.
The event touched literally every corner of the globe as atmospheric waves spread out in all directions to complete a full circumnavigation.
Activity at the volcano has now abated, which allowed the University of Auckland scientist to get in close on a small boat with Tongan locals Dee and Bronco Sugar.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61071293
Volcanoes have to be extinct for about 50 million years before I'll go near them.
If I'm jumpin off a boat in me togs, 75 million years.