The Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize is a huge sinkhole that formed when an enormous limestone cave system collapsed. Popular with scuba divers, it is over 300m across and more than 120m deep.
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i was wondering about how it could be. because these are not big but GREAT. and what kind of organism possibly life in those holes?