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  2. Belize's Great Blue Hole is mysterious and thrilling

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    The Great Blue Hole in Belize was declared by Jacques Cousteau to be one of the top five dive sites in the world. Discovery Channel referred to it as one of the ten most amazing places on earth.

  3. Great Blue Hole - Wikipedia

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    The Great Blue Hole is near the center of the photo­graph. The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m (1,043 ft) across and 124 m (407 ft) deep.

  4. Blue hole - Wikipedia

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    The Great Blue Hole, located near Ambergris Caye, Belize Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas Watling's Blue Hole, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. A blue hole is a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island composed of a carbonate bedrock (limestone or coral reef).

  5. List of sinkholes - Wikipedia

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    The Great Blue Hole, a giant submarine sinkhole, near Ambergris Caye, Belize. The following is a list of sinkholes, blue holes, dolines, crown holes, cenotes, and pit caves. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.

  6. ‘Blue hole’ is largest ever discovered at 1.3K feet deep ...

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    This subterranean formation could potentially even offer a portal to both space and time like a subaquatic black hole. In 2012, scientists exploring blue holes in the Bahamas discovered bacteria ...

  7. Belize's 'Blue Hole' can help crack the mystery of ancient Maya

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    The Blue Hole is a massive sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize. Belize's 'Blue Hole' can help crack the mystery of ancient Maya Skip to main content

  8. Taam Ja' Blue Hole - Wikipedia

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    Its name means deep water in the Mayan language and, at over 420 metres (1,380 ft) deep, it is the deepest known blue hole. [1] Blue holes generate a distinctive blue color when seen from above and are typically only a few dozen meters deep. It was discovered in about 2003 by a local diver who followed a grouper that went into its mouth. The ...

  9. Scientists Discovered the World's Deepest Blue Hole. And They ...

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