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Dean's Blue Hole, Bahamas

Blue Hole Dean is internationally known as an ideal place for free diving. It is situated in the bay west of the town of Clarence, Long Island, Bahamas.



Blue Hole has a circular base with a diameter of 25 to 35 meters (82-110 feet). After a descent of 20 meters (66 feet) significantly expands the opening of the cave with a diameter of 100 meters (330 feet)





The failure of the Bimah, Oman

The failure of the Bimah, limestone crater filled with blue-green water, is a popular attraction of tourists coming to Kuarayat. It is located in Oman.



Failure is located 500 meters from the beach.



The water is salty because the lake is connected to the underwater cave with the sea.



Great Blue Hole

Great Blue Hole - Located in the center of Lighthouse Reef Atoll as part of the Belize Barrier Reef. The hole is a circular sinkholes diameter of 305 m, leaving a depth of 120 m.



Blue Hole became famous thanks to the French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who included it in the list of the top 10 places in the world for diving. In 1972, on his vessel Calypso, he measured the depth of the hole and confirmed the theory of its formation.



Going down to single submarines into the hole, the expedition discovered a massive stalactites, some of which are located at an angle of 10 ° -13 ° to the vertical, indicating a geological shift and tilting the underlying plateaus.



IR Kiel, Mexico

This is one of the most beautiful karst lakes Ikil (translated as "the place where the wind is born"). Each of the Maya considered sacred cenote.



The height of the wall is about 25 meters, and depth - more than 50 meters





Red Lake, Croatia

Red Lake (Crveno jezero) - castor lake. The depth of 287 m Red Lake. Red Lake is the deepest lake in Europe.



The height of the lake above sea level 281 m. Difference in height 528 m. Red Lake is almost three times smaller in area than the blue, and is surrounded by steep slopes. Their edge is equipped with an observation deck.



The name of the lake was given the red rocks at the lake.



Morning Glory Pool, United States

It is a beautiful lake with unique features in Yellowstone National Park in the United States



Very little hot lake depth of 2 200 meters, of which there is a pair and still it changes its color from pale turquoise to deep purple, and then suddenly becomes green. And all this multi-colored splendor created by bacteria living here, which is very favorable temperature conditions.



His beautiful name it is no less beautiful lake is obliged Elizabeth McGowan, wife of the assistant manager Natsinalnym Park. She called him Convolutus - Morning Glory flower, intricately twisted flower bright blue. The same color was once itself Morning Glory Pool - bright blue with a yellow-orange trim.



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