| | |  | CONGO - ZAIRE | Home » » NOVA: Volcano Under the City | | | | | | | Description: | | A team of scientists clambers down into the steep crater of an active volcano in central Africa, a lake of molten lava seething far below. The team’s mission is to explore this deadly mountain up close to find out when and why it is likely to erupt next. The lives of half a million people living directly in its shadow are at stake. In January 2002, the ground close to the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo split open and rivers of lava swept through entire neighborhoods, killing some 100 people and leaving 120,000 homeless. The volcano towering over the city, Mount Nyirangongo, had awoken again. Now French volcanologist Jacques Durieux and his team worry that, next time, deadly lava could erupt from cracks directly under the city itself. Volcano Under the City reaches a stunning climax as Durieux’s team struggles to capture a sample of furiously boiling lava from the heart of the volcano. The crater walls crumble and Mount Nyirangongo belches poisonous gas as the scientists put their lives on the line to retrieve their vital data. . Special DVD features include: materials and activities for educators; a link to the NOVA Web site; scene selections; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired. On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed. | | | Product Details: | | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
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| PBS | | Run Time:
| 56 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| February 07, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
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Deadly Mt Nyirangongo rules Congo "Paradise"Oct 26, 2007
By Afan of Sitagyl Manor Filmmaker Osa Johnson called Lake Kivu "Paradise" when she and husband Martin lived there during the early 1930s, but looming over the lake is dangerous Mt Nyirangongo, a huge active volcano that threatens to destroy Goma, a city of 500,000 set on a Congo lakeshore. This city, the scene of decades of armed conflict and civil unrest, was built literally on top of the volcanic system, laced with fissures, fumaroles, and cracks that emit deadly CO2 that hugs the ground and sometimes kills the unwary. The fastest flowing lava in the world is spewed from the crater, as observed during 2005's disastrous lava eruptions.
Lake Kivu itself is a potential menace, carbon dioxide belching into the deep recesses of the lake from underwater fissures. This gas could be destabilized by any volcanic or seismic event and be released into the atmosphere in a cataclysmic event, similar to Cameroon's Nyos lake tragedy.
The bold descent of the vulcanologists into the actively boiling crater is not to be missed! In all, an exciting and absorbing film with nice illustrative graphics. The occasional proprietary NOVA/PBS popup can be annoying, but the awesome scenery of the volcanic cone makes up for it. Recommended!!
Good info, but doomsday deliveryOct 04, 2011
By Di We (2 parents, a 9-year-old, a 12-year-old) viewed this as a supplement to our earth sciences studies after reading about volcanoes. Good info, including some really interesting experiments and demonstrations, but half the narration was something along the lines of "Would the volcano destroy the entire region within days? Would xyz thing that could possibly happen reverberate through history?" Reasonable possibilities, yes, but this would have been much better to watch without the hyped-up drama.
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