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Volcanologists - tommag - 03-15-2024
Watching NOVA tonight and they featured the big underwater eruption 2 years ago in Tonga. They did a good job of explaining the findings so far. The researchers looked at a nearby active volcano, gathering data both by drone and on foot.
On foot, they hiked to the bottom of the crater within what looked like a couple hundred yards of a big sulfer dioxide plume. It seems to me it wouldn't take much of a change in conditions to put them in the SO2 clouds.
Besides scientific curiosity, you'd have to have a huge sense of civic duty to take that risk!
RE: Volcanologists - srjdsmith - 03-16-2024
Hiking a young crater like that seems almost suicidal to me. I never got more than an acid burn hole near the hem of my pants in the name of science.