This Is the World’s Deepest Sinkhole, Nearly the Height of Chicago’s Trump Tower—and Experts Are Yet to Reach Its Bottom

This Is the World’s Deepest Sinkhole, Nearly the Height of Chicago’s Trump Tower—and Experts Are Yet to Reach Its Bottom
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Courtesy of Joan A. Sánchez-Sánchez and Alcérreca-Huerta et al/Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024
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The “deepest-known” under-ocean sinkhole on the planet has been found—and it’s so deep that researchers haven’t yet reached the bottom.

Dubbed a “blue hole” or “karst cave” by scientists, the vertical marine cavern was explored at length during a scuba-diving expedition to Chetumal Bay, off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, last December.

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