# A large underwater volcano is erupting north of Papua New Guinea **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2026, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-underwater-volcano-is-erupting-north-of-papua-new-guinea/1030057 "2026-05-14T02:12:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-underwater-volcano-is-erupting-north-of-papua-new-guinea/1030057/1 "2026-05-14T02:12:15Z")
That’s not the really newsworthy part. That the volcano is creating an ash and steam cloud despite being a half-mile underwater is. > **[A Major Eruption in Ongoing; The Media is Missing It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OdqtbSl4R0%2F)** > > A major explosive volcanic eruption is ongoing, the largest so far of 2026, and yet the media is largely missing it. What I am referring to is a volcano whic... ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-underwater-volcano-is-erupting-north-of-papua-new-guinea/1030057/2 "2026-05-14T02:57:43Z")
The narrator sounds like Kip Dynamite. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-underwater-volcano-is-erupting-north-of-papua-new-guinea/1030057/3 "2026-05-14T04:57:33Z")
He certainly does have a very unusual voice, and I don’t think it’s altered in any way. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-underwater-volcano-is-erupting-north-of-papua-new-guinea/1030057/4 "2026-05-14T11:00:36Z")
IANA expert by any means, but I don’t think that’s a human voice. That’s a text to speech system. Here’s a couple of geo-physics-related cites to the eruption: > **[Rare volcanic ash emission detected from submarine volcano in Central...](https://watchers.news/2026/05/13/rare-volcanic-ash-emission-detected-submarine-volcano-central-bismarck-sea-papua-new-guinea-may-2026/)** > > Darwin VAAC is reporting a rare volcanic ash emission from a submarine volcano in the Bismarck Sea Volcanic Province, Papua New Guinea, since Monday, May 11, 2026. By Wednesday, May 13… and **[Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Report on Central Bismarck Sea (Papua New Guinea) — 12 May 2026](https://volcano.si.edu/showreport.cfm?gvpvar=GVP.DVAR20260512-250030)**. These site’s pages should to be kept up to date as the situation develops. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-underwater-volcano-is-erupting-north-of-papua-new-guinea/1030057/5 "2026-05-15T11:29:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > IANA expert by any means, but I don’t think that’s a human voice. That’s a text to speech system. Got to be. And a bad one at that. I had to turn the sound off. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-underwater-volcano-is-erupting-north-of-papua-new-guinea/1030057/6 "2026-05-26T19:57:10Z")
Here’s some fresh info on the eruption: > **[New Eruption in the Bismarck Sea - NASA Science](https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/new-eruption-in-the-bismarck-sea/)** > > Satellite imagery shows a surge of new volcanic activity in the ocean near Papua New Guinea.