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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 ...
Chetumal Bay contains several blue holes, most notably the Taam Ja' Blue Hole. With a depth of at least 420 metres (1,380 ft), it is the world deepest known blue hole. With a depth of at least 420 metres (1,380 ft), it is the world deepest known blue hole.
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 ...
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.
Including connected dry caves makes Sistema Sac Actun 386.122 km (239.925 mi) long, the second longest cave in Mexico [2] and third longest worldwide. [ 6 ] On December 9, 2004, after a dive with two other teammates, Kent Hirsch and Michael Nast were drowned deep in the cave as they got lost and have exhausted their oxygen supply.
Sistema Huautla (Oaxaca), deepest cave in the western hemisphere (as of 2013) [2] Sistema Nohoch Nah Chich (Quintana Roo), underwater cave system; subsumed into Sac Actun in early 2007; Sistema Ox Bel Ha (Quintana Roo), world's longest underwater cave system; Sistema Sac Actun (Quintana Roo), world's second longest underwater cave system
Dos Ojos contains the deepest known cave passage in Quintana Roo with 119.1 meters (391 ft) of depth located at "The Pit" discovered in 1996 by cave explorers who came all the way from the main entrance some 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) away. The deep passages include the "Wakulla Room", the "Beyond Main Base (BMB) passage", "Jill's room" and "The ...
Top of Golondrinas as viewed from the low side, during a descent made in 1979 A caver rappels the drop from the cave's mouth. Cross section of the cave. The Cave of Swallows, also called the Cave of the Swallows (Spanish: Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open-air pit cave in the municipality of Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.