{"id":6132,"date":"2024-05-01T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:12:14","slug":"researchers-found-the-planets-deepest-under-ocean-sinkhole-and-its-so-big-they-cant-get-to-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=6132","title":{"rendered":"Researchers found the planet’s deepest under-ocean sinkhole \u2013\u00a0and it’s so big, they can’t get to the bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sinkholes don’t just happen on land, they also happen in the ocean where they’re known as blue holes. And now, researchers say they’ve found the deepest one yet on the planet \u2013 one so large that they can’t even get to the bottom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay, once thought to be the world’s second-deepest known blue hole. But as researchers explained in an article published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday, scuba divers went to the site at the beginning of December to take another look, and found it was far bigger that first thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The TJBH is now the deepest blue hole discovered to date, exhibiting water depths surpassing 420 mbsl [meters below sea level], with its bottom yet to be reached,” authors said in their journal article. The newly-recorded depth amounts to just over a quarter-mile below sea level into the mesopelagic zone, an area otherwise known as the twilight zone since sunlight in this layer is significantly reduced.\u00a0<\/p>\n