Has anyone dived to the bottom of the Blue Hole?

Divers have finally made it to the bottom of Belize's iconic Great Blue Hole, but a dirty secret was lurking at the bottom of the pristine natural wonder. The Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole in the Caribbean off the coast of Belize that has left tourists and scientists awe-struck.



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About The Belize Blue Hole A nearly perfectly circular body of water, the Belize Blue Hole is surrounded by the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. Divers can use the shallow waters of the atoll's lagoon to begin their descent to the now-flooded cave that contains stalactites and stalagmites up to 40 feet (12 meters) in length.

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“We found conches and conch shells and hermit crabs that had fallen into the hole and suffocated,” she said in an interview at the time. The team also found a two-liter Coke bottle that had made its way to a depth of more than 100 meters, as well as a lost GoPro camera.

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The hole is perfectly circular in shape, over 300 meters (1000 ft) across, 3140 feet circumference and 125 meters (410 ft) deep. It was formed as a limestone cave system during the last glacial period when the sea level was 400 to 500 feet below present time and was dry land.

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Option 2: Scuba diving in the Great Blue Hole Belize. The other way to experience the Great Blue Hole Belize is by scuba diving inside the hole. This of course gives you the experience of seeing inside this incredible sinkhole, not viewing it from above.

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Description. The Blue Hole is a clear blue body of water with a constant 62 °F (17 °C) temperature and constant inflow of 3,000 US gallons per minute (11 m3/min; 2,500 imp gal/min), enough to cycle out the water every six hours.

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Believed to be the world's largest feature of its kind, the Great Blue Hole is part of the larger Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, a World Heritage site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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Scientists believe the cave formed during the last Ice Age, which ended about 14,000 years ago. The cave flooded and collapsed as the Ice Age ended and sea levels began to rise, leaving behind the Blue Hole we see today. Researchers also predict it won't be around forever.

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