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Explore boiling pots of molten sulfur at Nikko volcano near the Mariana Islands

Explore boiling pots of molten sulfur at Nikko volcano near the Mariana Islands

Boiling pots of molten sulfur on the slope of the Nikko volcano near the Mariana Islands.
Major funding for this expedition was provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration Program and NOAA Vents Program; video clips edited by Bill Chadwick, Oregon State University/NOAA
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Transcript

SPEAKER: We were just heading for the southwest outside of the crater, outside the main crater. Southwest off the flank of the volcano there's a small, what may be an older, crater on the southwest flank.

VOICES: There it is, there it is. There's some sulfur, right there. That's a little beauty. Look at that. That's a beauty.

SPEAKER: Hold on a second. Yes, Ross.

ROSS: Should we at least dip a temperature probe in there?

SPEAKER: Yes, please.

VOICES: That's really boiling away, isn't it?

That should get it.

A hundred ninety-eight.

A hundred ninety-seven point nine.

SPEAKER: Huh, look at that. That's yellow sulfur.