Every 10 to 12 thousand years, there’s a volcano in the heart of Europe that goes boom. And not just any boom, but a let’s-kill-everyone-with-billions-of-tonnes-of-magma boom that would cover everything in ash from England and Denmark to the north of Italy.
On June 4, southern Chile’s Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in 50 years. It’s been spewing giant ash clouds ever since. Enough ash, it seems, to make the Nahuel Huapi Lake in neighbouring Argentina an unrecognizable, soot-covered abyss, as you’ll see in the above video of one diver’s attempt to sift through it all. [via The Telegraph]
When it comes to smoking, you can settle for a pipe or rolling papers. Or you can drop $US670 on a Volcano Vapouriser, the king of all paraphernalia. We took one for a test run.
