Scientists aboard the vessel Pisces V visited the volcano earlier this month to examine its geological features and its rich variety of marine life. Article Continued Below“We don’t know anything about the ocean floor,” said Peter Seligmann, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Conservation International. “What we know is that each one of those seamounts is a refuge for new species, but we don’t know what they are. We don’t know how they’ve evolved. “We don’t know what we’re going to find,” said Conservation International’s Greg Stone, a marine biologist on board.

Source: thestar September 17, 2016 23:03 UTC