Blue Hole in Belize-Dive into a bottomless pit


	Blue Hole in Belize-Dive into a bottomless pit

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9-1-2007 1:41 AM

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blue, hole, belize, diving, reef, bottomless, pit, depth, circular

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9-1-2007 5:24 AM

syncopath

i lately stumbled upon this same clip, and yet again, i pop it -)) mayb cause am attracted 2 blue holes or simply attracted 2beauty ..

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4470e94a-5633-4712-a55c-94369ca7d9be/0789E31A-DAA5-4ECF-9CA5-7E5A07B108D2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/25/blue-hole-in-belize/" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/25/blue-hole-in-belize/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.neatorama.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/25/blue-hole-in-belize/"><P align="center"><IMG width="500" height="386" src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-07/belize-blue-hole.jpg" /><BR />Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/25/blue-hole-in-belize/"><P align="center"><IMG width="500" height="342" src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-07/belize-blue-hole-afar.jpg" /><BR />Belize Blue Hole from afar</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/25/blue-hole-in-belize/"><P>About 60 miles from <A href="#" class="kLink"  id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#32527a"><SPAN class="kLink">Belize </SPAN><SPAN class="kLink">City</SPAN></FONT></A>, there is a perfectly circular 1,000 (305 m) feet across and 400 feet (123 m) <DEL datetime="2007-07-28T06:16:14+00:00">wide</DEL> deep "Blue Hole." The hole, part of the Lighthouse Reef system, was once an opening to a cave system during the Ice Age - it is now a magnet for extreme divers:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/25/blue-hole-in-belize/"><EM>For all the practical purposes the over 400-foot depth makes the Blue Hole a bottomless pit. The walls are sheer from the surface until a depth of approximately 110 feet where you will begin to encounter stalactite formtions which actually angle back, allowing you to dive underneath monstrous overhangs. Hovering amongst the stalactites, you can’t help but feel humbled by the knowledge that the massive formation before you once stood high and dry above the surface of the sea eons ago.</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/25/blue-hole-in-belize/"><P>Dive Belize has the story: <A href="http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/greatbluehole.html">Link</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0789E31A-DAA5-4ECF-9CA5-7E5A07B108D2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>