http://www.iflscience.com/environment/wh...f-kilauea/
EXCERPT: If you wanted to, and you had the right materials, you could probably sail on lava. (Side note: do not do this.)
For those craving a safer sailing/lava mashup, though, you can always look to Kilauea’s hyperactive Fissure 8, whose profuse effusion of lava is producing “lava boats” – several of which, as spotted by Hawaii News Now’s Mileka Lincoln, are pretty damn huge, about the size of several cars smushed together.
The video has to be seen to be believed, but suffice to say that it’s mesmerizing watching the massive buoyant chunk of recently cooled lava slowly and rather casually make its way downstream. In fact, this footage is a good reminder that, in some ways, lava flows have a lot in common with conventional rivers....
MORE: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/wh...f-kilauea/
VIDEO: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38536...ava-rapids
EXCERPT: If you wanted to, and you had the right materials, you could probably sail on lava. (Side note: do not do this.)
For those craving a safer sailing/lava mashup, though, you can always look to Kilauea’s hyperactive Fissure 8, whose profuse effusion of lava is producing “lava boats” – several of which, as spotted by Hawaii News Now’s Mileka Lincoln, are pretty damn huge, about the size of several cars smushed together.
The video has to be seen to be believed, but suffice to say that it’s mesmerizing watching the massive buoyant chunk of recently cooled lava slowly and rather casually make its way downstream. In fact, this footage is a good reminder that, in some ways, lava flows have a lot in common with conventional rivers....
MORE: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/wh...f-kilauea/
VIDEO: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38536...ava-rapids