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.
鈥淭he tallest is over one-and-a-half miles in height, and we didn鈥檛 really know it was there,鈥 says听听at the Schmidt Ocean Institute in California.
Virmani鈥檚 team on the exploration vessel听came across the seamounts in January, while navigating from Costa Rica to Chile for an unrelated expedition. The satellites…
