'Sharkano' home of mutant sharks erupts

It sounds like a SYFY TV movie meets Irwin Allen disaster epic, but nope, it's true.

An underwater volcano that has sharks living in it really has erupted, it's not just James Bond villains that call them home then...and it was all captured by NASA.

NASA satellite images show a plume of discoloured water being emitted from the Kavachi Volcano, which lies about 15 miles south of Vangunu Island, on May 14

@NASAGoddard on Twitter posted:

🦈 You’ve heard of sharknado, now get ready for sharkcano.

The Kavachi Volcano in the Solomon Islands is home to two species of sharks. It’s also one of the most active submarine volcanoes in the Pacific, seen here erupting underwater by #Landsat 9.

Kavachi subsea volcano erupts on a Melanesia expedition led by EYOS

The explosion caused when Chief Brody shot the air tank at in the mouth of the shark at the end of Jaws (1975)

The sharkano, actually named the Kavachi Volcano, is in the Solomon Islands and has gained its nickname thanks to two species of shark which are known to live within it.

Experts believe that the sharks, a scalloped hammerhead and the silky shark, must have mutated to be able to not just survive, but thrive in the extreme heat and acidic environment. Cue images of the great white shark on fire in Jaws 2.

Words by Dean Newman

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