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Here’s what you need to know before visiting the Great Blue Hole. Like a pinprick piercing the azure Caribbean Sea, the Great Blue Hole is as mysterious as it is mesmerizing. From above ...
Analysis of the sediment in Belize’s Great Blue Hole shows a concerning trend. Blue holes, the name for collapsed limestone ...
An expedition to the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize in Central America has returned with a cargo of ...
Tropical storms have been steadily increasing in frequency over the past 5,700 years, new evidence from sediment in the Great ...
A 30-meter sediment core extracted from the “Great Blue Hole” in Belize offers the longest continuous record of storm ...
It's called the Great Blue Hole. Scuba divers and snorkelers have been cruising the surface waters for decades, but few have dared to venture deeper and explore what lies beyond the blackness.
Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 – along with six other areas surrounding Belize's barrier reef – the Great Blue Hole remains one of the world's most distinguished scuba sites.
T he history of the Great Blue Hole in the Caribbean is being revealed by a 30-meter (98-foot) sediment core taken from the ...
According to Travel Belize, the country’s Great Blue Hole is a massive marine sinkhole that “is circular in shape and roughly 1,000 feet across (300 meters) and over 400 feet deep (120 meters).” ...
Researchers have described how tropical cyclones in the Caribbean could become more frequent after analyzing sediment from ...
A graph from the study showing the storm frequency in the Great Blue Hole in 100-year counting windows. The black line represents the 5,700-year trend towards increasing storm frequency in the ...