The submersible <i>DeepSee</i>, some 600 feet below the surface of the Pacific, descends into a volcanic vent of the seamount Las Gemelas.<br>
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The submersible DeepSee, some 600 feet below the surface of the Pacific, descends into a volcanic vent of the seamount Las Gemelas.
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Mountains in the Sea
Hundreds of thousands of seamounts rise from Earth’s ocean floor. Life has been explored on barely 300.
This story appears in the September 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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