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Clarence Town, Long Island, Bahamas. Coordinates. 23°6′23″N 75°0′31″W / 23.10639°N 75.00861°W / 23.10639; -75.00861. Depth. 202 metres (663 ft) [1] Geology. Blue hole. Dean's Blue Hole is a blue hole located in The Bahamas in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island and is the world's third deepest with an estimated ...
Herbert Nitsch (born 20 April 1970) is an Austrian freediver, the current freediving world record champion, and "the deepest man on earth" [1] having dived to a depth of 253.2 meters (831 feet). Nitsch has held 34 world records in all of the eight freediving disciplines recognised by AIDA International and one in the traditional Greek ...
At up to 115 feet wide and 663 feet deep, Dean's Blue Hole is the world's deepest blue hole-- and Nery dove right into the center of it, no oxygen tank included.
The deepest blue hole in the world is the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Chetumal Bay, which was found to have a depth of more than 420 metres (1,380 ft) in 2024. [ 3 ] The second deepest is the Dragon Hole , or Longdong, in the South China Sea at 300.89 metres (987 ft) deep, [ 4 ] while the third deepest blue hole in the world is Dean's Blue Hole at ...
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 ...
Dean's Blue Hole, an underwater cavern, in the Bahamas may be popular with tourists and freedivers, but, according to a 60 Minutes report, many locals believe it was "dug by the devil.". Such ...
The island's blue holes are water-filled cave systems, which attract divers from all over the world. All the main islands of The Bahamas have blue holes, but those of Andros are the best known. Andros has 178 on land with at least 50 in the sea. Blue holes can best be described as entrances to the intricate cave systems that run underneath the ...
November 17, 2013. (2013-11-17) (aged 32) The Bahamas. Sport. Sport. Free-diving. Nicholas Lawrence Mevoli III (August 22, 1981 – November 17, 2013) [2] was an American freediver who died while attempting to set an American record at the Vertical Blue competition at Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas. [3][4]