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(Image: OCEANA/Carlos Minguell)

Reaching the top of a mountain normally involves a steep climb, but these divers have gone the other way. They are part of a team mapping the Dacia and Trit贸n seamounts near the Canary Islands, off the north-west coast of Africa.

鈥淭hese mountains could be considered as the 鈥榦ther鈥� Canary Islands, some of which, though now submerged, at one time rose up out of the sea,鈥� says Helena 脕lvarez, a marine scientist at , the conservation organisation behind the work.

In fact, they still are rising. A volcano near this crater is causing a new Canary Island to grow.