A 2015 expedition found silky sharks and scalloped hammerheads inside Kavachi’s active submarine crater in the Solomon Islands, where warm, acidic, particle-filled plumes from a volcano with at least 39 recorded eruptions since 1939 reveal how a shallow, rapidly mixed “sharkcano” can offer large predators brief access to a food-rich habitat amid recurring violent disturbance
A 2016 Oceanography study documented sharks and other marine life inside the active crater of the Kavachi submarine volcano in the Solomon Islands. Cameras lowered into the crater during a rare quiet period recorded silky sharks, scalloped hammerheads, bony fish and microbial communities living amid volcanic emissions. The discovery presented researchers with an ecological puzzle.…
