Would it be possible to create an artificial volcanic island?

A volcanic island can obviously come into existence quite easily and swiftly by natural causes, as evidenced for instance by the appearance of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland. However, people have already drilled into magma chambers by accident, with less than spectacular results "“ apparently the magma made it only a few metres up the borehole.

Yet please picture a multi-billionaire who has put it into her mind to play a kind of deity and literally raise a new island from the depths (or shallows, as the case might be) of the ocean, then cultivate it and start living peacefully on it.

Would it be possible to artificially trigger the emergence of a volcanic island by boring into the Earth's mantle below the oceanic crust and thus causing magma to rise to the surface through the created hole in a controlled manner and without risking any cataclysms?

If the currently available technology is not yet up to this task, then what is missing and what should our billionaire immediately start researching and developing?

posted about 8 years ago

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