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kenket

Blue Hole

Oct 11, 2009 23:08

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kohai_tiger October 12 2009, 05:22:40 UTC

Ah! The ocean's going to drain out!

ulfruna October 12 2009, 06:19:24 UTC

!!!!!

ixwkir October 12 2009, 07:39:48 UTC

Whoa, I had seen photos of that before, but did not realize it was just the mouth for an huge underwater cave! :o

kenket October 12 2009, 08:39:49 UTC

The best part is it's full of tiger sharks and hammerheads! ;]

ixwkir October 12 2009, 09:01:32 UTC

...AWESOME.

ixwkir October 12 2009, 09:58:01 UTC

I'm glad that that's where they go. I read only yesterday that their fins are selling at 100 quid a pound. The fish are being sliced and thrown back, and are dying in great pain not long afterwards. Reminds me of the bloke on our fishing boat who used to do exactly that. The soup was good and we didn't discourage him. Oh how our attitudes change as we grow up! X

ben_mouse October 12 2009, 15:50:47 UTC

Thar be some amazin' things out in the sea, lass...

Also... ben_mouse October 12 2009, 15:53:36 UTC

My hat's off to the divers who surveyed that cave. Having lost a friend to cave diving, I can say that it takes a lot of skill to dive these, and you don't want to make any mistakes!

Oddly, my friend's name was Al Hole. Seriously.

More pondering... ben_mouse October 12 2009, 15:56:23 UTC

Given the depths, I'm wondering if they didn't use ROVs or some other indirect method of scoping the cave. Sports diving ends right around 200 feet. On special mixtures you can get a lot deeper if you know what you are about, though.

Re: More pondering... tarinfirepelt October 14 2009, 03:16:48 UTC

Hey Ben. Not seen you in a while. Come by and say hi.

With the rebreather tech they are starting to get major hours in the caves. You still will never get me into one underwater (Went ceiling sucking once...NEVER again.) but I do miss my caves.

Check out this vid. You may like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yefQb1y6uQg&feature=player_embedded