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The seamount is 250 miles north of Palau — an island country east of the Philippines — and multibeam sonar revealed its peak is hidden about 800 feet below the surface.
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Mark Price, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Or book a berth aboard the eight-passenger Water and Wind catamaran to sites that include Princess Alice Bank, where huge schools of jack, tuna, and barracuda cloud the seamount.
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Easily recognized by their slender bodies, long pectoral fins, and rounded snouts, this species is often seen cruising in the open ocean, particularly along the edges of continental shelves, around seamounts, and near offshore reefs.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The second looks to obtain cobalt-rich crusts that have accumulated over millions of years on the tops of seamounts between depths of approximately 3,000 and 8,000 feet, by peeling these crusts off from the bedrock.
—Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025
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Mark Price, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Or book a berth aboard the eight-passenger Water and Wind catamaran to sites that include Princess Alice Bank, where huge schools of jack, tuna, and barracuda cloud the seamount.
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Easily recognized by their slender bodies, long pectoral fins, and rounded snouts, this species is often seen cruising in the open ocean, particularly along the edges of continental shelves, around seamounts, and near offshore reefs.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The second looks to obtain cobalt-rich crusts that have accumulated over millions of years on the tops of seamounts between depths of approximately 3,000 and 8,000 feet, by peeling these crusts off from the bedrock.
—Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seamount. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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seamount
noun
sea·mount
ˈsē-ˌmau̇nt 
: a submarine mountain
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