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Blue holes are vertical cavities and caves in the seabed. Most often these are karst funnels filled with water. Blue holes owe their name to amazing contrast dark blue water in them and much brighter – around.
Scientists believe that such holes were formed in the ground seventeen thousand years ago when the level of the oceans was at one hundred twenty meters lower than today. Rain washed in limestone rocks cracks that turned over time into huge pits, and then whole caves. When the sea rose, these the recesses were filled with water.
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Dimensions of blue holes can be very different. To the present moment the title of the deepest of them was the Dean’s Blue Hole, located in the Bahamas. Its depth is two hundred two meters, diameter up to thirty-five meters. At a depth of twenty meters cave expands dramatically, turning into a kind of dome with a diameter of about a hundred meters. Needless to say this place teeming with picturesque marine life is quite A popular attraction among divers.
Sea blue holes dispute primacy
However, most recently, Dean’s Blue Hole said goodbye to title of record holder. Among the Paracel Islands in South China the sea was examined by the Dragon Hole, and it turned out that its depth is a little over three hundred meters! Chinese specialists, studying corals, plunged into a karst funnel and found in its surface is over twenty species of living things. Deeper hundred meters, where oxygen is almost absent, no living creatures it turned out.
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Despite the fact that most of us until recently did not know anything about this amazing cave, it is found in medieval Chinese traditions. According to one of the legends, in the Hole The dragon is inhabited by a real magic dragon commanding South China Sea and all its inhabitants. Once unfair expelled by the congeners, the monkey went on a sea voyage, to ask the dragon for permission to live in his kingdom. Instead of this (when the monkey reached the cave with great difficulty) the dragon gave her golden magic wand that allowed the primate to become a leader of his people.
For the Dragon Hole to be officially declared the deepest blue hole of the planet, international must be convinced of this experts, however the catch may be that uninhabited Paracel Islands are a disputed territory. Actually the archipelago is controlled by the PRC, however, it is also presented claims Taiwan and Vietnam. What state then will be belong to a record? ..
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