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the undersea Loihi volcano in the Hawaiian Islands may be invisible at sea level, but it towers almost 10,000 feet above the ocean floor. That's taller than Mount St. Helens. During a 1996 eruption of Loihi, researchers recorded the temperature of the surrounding water at almost 400°F.

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