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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).
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. [1][2] It has a surface area of 70,650 square metres (760,500 sq ft).
In 2012, scientists exploring blue holes in the Bahamas discovered bacteria deep in the caves where no other life existed, potentially filling the knowledge “gap” on what types of lifeforms ...
Known as Dean’s Blue Hole, this geological wonder located off the coast of Long Island is a staggering 663 feet deep, making it one of the deepest blue holes in the world and also an area ripe ...
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.
The Blue Hole is a massive sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
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 a depth of 202 ...
The most interesting section is the blue hole, which is the cause of the Lost River being listed by Ripley's Believe it or Not as the "Shortest, deepest river in the world." Plumb bobs indicated that the blue hole was 437 feet deep, while the river itself is only 400 feet long. The blue hole is though in fact linked to a further underground river.