East Pacific Rise

At the edges of the Ring of Fire, the plates come together in three different types of boundaries.

On the eastern side, the seafloor spreads from the mid-ocean ridge called the East Pacific Rise that runs along the eastern edge of the Pacific Plate from near Antarctica all the way to North America.

It's a divergent plate boundary, or place where plates are moving away from each other, with the Nazca Plate moving east and the Pacific Plate moving northwest.

Along divergent plates, magma can well up and the seafloor regenerates and spreads.

It's a long cruise because it's very far away.

We left out of, we left out of Tonga, and we went into Dunedin in the southern tip of New Zealand, and we crossed the Altona and New Denise fracture zones across the East Pacific Rise, which is the great mountains in the south there.

And this was extraordinary.

For a young person, I was 22, maybe 23 when I went, and, and I knew what a blizzard felt like.