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This July a team from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, with support from partners Ocean Networks Canada, embarked on a two-week Pacific seamounts expedition that uncovered the mysteries of Canada’s largest underwater volcano—Explorer seamount—at the centre of a potential Offshore Pacific Marine Protected Area.

Seamounts expedition discovers 'Coraltropolis' and scratching shark

A year after discovering '[Spongetopia](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bc-photographic-expedition-of-undersea-volcano-to-capture-marine/)' in 2018, a team from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, with support from partners Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), embarked on the two-week [#PacificSeamounts2019](https://twitter.com/hashtag/PacificSeamounts2019?src=hash) expedition in July that uncovered the mysteries of Canada’s largest underwater volcano—Explorer seamount—at the centre of a potential Offshore Pacific Marine Protected Area.

Read more about the expedition [here](https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/atsea-enmer/missions/2019/seamounts-sousmarins-eng.html).

Watch the expedition overview video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajmI_Xur1F0).