Canary Island volcano

[Eddie Clamp]

An undersea volcano erupting just south of Spain's Canary Islands may be the beginnings of a new island, or an extension to an existing one. For some, it's a colourful spectacle - for others a major blow to their livelihood.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15917740

[John Bantin]

Maybe just rocks now. http://www.divernet.com/Travel_Features/atlantic/157274/fish_and_rocks.html

[Eddie Clamp]

Wasn't erupting here: http://www.bsac.com/diverreports.asp?itemid=9990&itemTitle=Diving+el+Hierro+with+el+Tamboril+and+Sh ane+Gray&section=1405&sectionTitle=S+Europe+%2F+The+Atlantic

[John Bantin]

Ah, lapas y papas fritas!

[Eddie Clamp]

Ah, lapas y papas fritas!

Delicioso! :D

All that being said John - what a difference in your cheerful prose as a diving travel writer and ours as in BSAC reports 'by divers for divers' at: http://www.bsac.com/findit.asp?cat=tripreports&view=list&section=1511&itemTitle=Use+this+tool+to+access+hundreds+of+inde pendantly+written+diver+trip+and+holiday+reports%2 E

[Dm_]

data, reports and videos

http://earthquake-report.com/2011/09/25/el-hierro-canary-islands-spain-volcanic-risk-alert-increased-to-yellow/

[ChristianG]

All that being said John - what a difference in your cheerful prose as a diving travel writer and ours as in BSAC reports 'by divers for divers'
I had a look at the video Eddie. :)

I've never dived there but I did snorkel there a fair bit back in the late fifties and I can only confirm your own thoughts: no fish life, today, worth speaking of. The topography is pretty familiar though, I guess the "fish killers" didn't really worry about that side of things - thankfully.