One of the four recently discovered seamounts Schmidt Ocean Institute
Four new underwater mountains have been discovered in the high seas off the west coast of South and Central America.
“The tallest is over one-and-a-half miles in height, and we didn’t really know it was there,” saysat the Schmidt Ocean Institute in California.
Virmani’s team on the exploration vesselcame across the seamounts in January, while navigating from Costa Rica to Chile for an unrelated expedition. The satellites…
