[Rockhounds] The hottest water on Earth

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

"Even Jules Verne did not foresee this one. Deep down at the very 
bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, geochemist Andrea Koschinsky has found 
something truly extraordinary: "It's water," she says, "but not as we 
know it."

At over 3 kilometres beneath the surface, sitting atop what could be a 
huge bubble of magma, it's the hottest water ever found on Earth. The 
fluid is in a "supercritical" state that has never before been seen in 
nature.

The fluid spews out of two black smokers called Two Boats and Sisters 
Peak."

	http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14456