How do you study an underwater volcano? Build an underwater laboratory

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By Suzanne JacobsAug 18, 2015, 5:01 am30 pts
It was the early 90s, and John Delaney was frustrated. For the past decade, he’d been studying a massive volcano about 300 miles due west of the Oregon-Washington border. It was right on the edge of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, stood more than a thousand meters tall, and was teeming with life adapted to…

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