sharks are smooth as hell indeed. in all directions.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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smooth lions of the sea
No shit they can't. Who the fuck was told "there are sharks living in this volcano" and said "hm I wonder what the feasibility of a person going down there is"
Had to look up the place. Looks like the temperature gets a bit over 100F (38C) in some places. Acidity isn't an issue for the diver, although it could be damaging to their gear. Search results suggest this picture was taken at ~160 feet, which is a reasonable dive for any technical diver
I've done a similar dive profile in Yellowstone looking at hydrothermal vents. It's a reasonable dive for any experienced and qualified diver. I'm guessing they didn't have a technical diver, with equipment, on hand. It was likely much easier to drop a camera and bait
Why, why would you want to dive in the ACID SHARK VOLCANO
For research purposes
Wish we had more info on these guys. This is cool as hell.
like in front of the aurora in subnautica
I mean... They gotta eat, so what else is living there🤔
kohl slaw
Grilled fish.
It's just sharks all the way down
Sharknado 9: Fire and Ash
Interestingly, that shark is silky shark, literally named that because of the smoothness of its skin...
Me at the spa:
I'll take the silky shark package please
They just dump car battery acid and lava on you.
The land may become uninhabitable by humans, but something tells me aquatic life will be alright... Maybe not all of it, but there will be adaptation and life will go on.
That's not to say destroying our ecosystems is ok, just that we're probably not going to end life entirely.
Reminds me of a quote from A Canticle for Lebowitz:
The horizon came alive with flashes as the monks mounted the ladder. The horizons became a red glow. A distant cloudbank was born where no cloud had been. The monks on the ladder looked away from the flashes. When the flashes were gone, they looked back. The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth...
...The breakers beat monotonously at the shores, casting up driftwood. An abandoned seaplane floated beyond the breakers. After a while the breakers caught the seaplane and threw it on the shore with the driftwood. It tilted and fractured a wing. There were shrimp carousing in the breakers, and the whiting that fed on the shrimp, and the shark that munched the whiting and found them admirable, in the sportive brutality of the sea. A wind came across the ocean, sweeping with it a pall of fine white ash. The ash fell into the sea and into the breakers. The breakers washed dead shrimp ashore with the driftwood. Then they washed up the whiting. The shark swam out to his deepest waters and brooded in the cold clean currents. He was very hungry that season.
There is life deep within the earth that will likely survive no matter what happens to the planet. The sun could fade, we could nuke the surface, have an asteroid completely resurface half the planet, and microbes will survive and eventually recolonize the entire world.
Not that we’d want a mass extinction of so many unique and beautiful things, but it is a comforting thought to realize we can’t really do anything that would render earth entirely devoid of life. And even if everything we know was lost, life would rise again to reclaim the rubble.
One could also say that the lack of a mass extinction event is preventing appearance and evolution of many more unique and beautiful things.
The end of one era is not "the end", but merely the start of another era.
I like this world. I don't want it to end.
"Life finds a way" is a threat, people just forgot that part. Life itself is unstoppable.
"Life finds a way" is a threat, people just forgot that part. Life itself is unstoppable.
Don't worry, our Sun will take care of life when it starts running out of fuel, expanding and boiling away everything on the surface of our planet.
By then we'll have had every iota of fun imaginable, and some fun that yet remains unimaginable. You'll have to nihilism harder to bum me out.
And thus began the epoch of the tardigrades
I wonder if their territory might expand with the oceans acidifying, or if they might actually just be regular sharks who spend some time in this area while moving around.
It was foretold, sharks are smooth.
Volcano sharks be like "bow wow"
Scientists be like "ow, how?!"
Shakespeare be like, “how now, brown cow.”