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Sharkcano: The Underwater Volcano Full Of Mutant Sharks

An active volcano teeming with mutant sharks sounds like the setting for a B-movie horror flick, but it's real. Just off the coast of Vangunu Island in the Solomon Islands, lies the underwater volcano, Kavachi. At its summit, which sits 66 feet below sea level, is a crater from which ash and magma violently erupt every few years in a blast so intense it looks like a nuclear warhead exploded off in the water. It's the last place that you'd expect to find life, except maybe the indestructible...

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Sharkcano: The Underwater Volcano Full Of Mutant Sharks
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