Santorini is still an active volcano, scientists remind tourists

Known as one of Greece’s most famous tourist destination islands, Santorini’s unique beauty was, as many know, the result of the eruption of an ancient volcano — one that is still alive to this day, as scientists remind us. In a CNN profile, scientists studying the volcano noted that although it hasn’t erupted for hundreds of years, it is by no means dead. “If we start seeing increased activity in Kolumbo then we need to be alert,” Tim Druitt, volcanologist and expedition co-chief of the deep drilling research vessel JOIDES Resolution, which visited Santorini for the first time late last year, told CNN. Capable of drilling up to 26,000 feet below the surface of the Aegean Sea, the researchers collected sediments that hadn’t yet been uncovered as they attempted to scientifically piece together the region’s storied volcanic history.