Vestnesa Gas Hydrate Ridge (VIDEO)

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Eight hundred-meter-high gas flares rise from the seabed at Vestnesa Ridge today. That's the size of the tallest manmade structure in the world -- Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

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Alexey Portnov/CAGE

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