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Mexico's Taam Ja' Blue Hole is the deepest known underwater sinkhole in the world, researchers have discovered — and they haven't even reached the bottom yet.

New measurements indicate the Taam Ja' Blue Hole (TJBH), which sits in Chetumal Bay off the southeast coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, extends at least 1,380 feet (420 meters) below sea level.

That's 480 feet (146 m) deeper than scientists initially documented when they first discovered the blue hole in 2021, and 390 feet (119 m) deeper than the previous record holder — the 990-foot-deep (301 m) Sansha Yongle Blue Hole, also known as the Dragon Hole, in the South China Sea.

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Is that the location where the dinosaur killing asteroid crashed at?

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It’s not far from it, but this is on the eastern side of the Yucatán peninsula. The Chicxulub crater is on the Northwestern side of the peninsula. I’m not equipped to weigh in on if it may be related, though.

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 12 points 7 months ago

That peninsula is always up to something

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I’m not equipped to weigh in on if it may be related, though.

Yeah that's basically was going to be my next question, curious if it's just the aftermath of such a huge impact with the Earth kind of thing.

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why do your comments have a license attached to them?

Its an anti Commercial-AI license. Basically to try to limit bots and prevent my comments being used to program AI models.

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[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That’s really novel, creative, and intelligent. You are a smart person!

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Blue holes are generally created via similar methods to sink holes. Basically sandstone erosion, also I dont think an impact like that would leave any cave systems. Remember that asteroid was about the size of Texas, im pretty sure most things in the region we're nuked and I cant imagine much more than a crater could be created.

[–] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Definitely not the size of Texas. Estimated 10-15 km across.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I dont think an impact like that would leave any cave systems.

I'm not a planetary geologist, but I was just thinking more like afterwards, as the planet healed, and water shifted around.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I can actually correct myself, apparently at the edge of the crater sink holes do form. But I still suspect the two are pretty much unrelated due to distance.