dagbladet.no— A giant sinkhole swallowed several homes and at least one truck early Friday in Guatemala City. Unbelievable pictures of the gigantic hole!
Feb 23, 2007View in Crawl 4
The deepest sinkhole is in northeast Mexico, El Zacatón; a water filled sinkhole/cenote over 1,000 (~330 meters) feet deep connected by a series of other cenotes - In 1994, scuba diver Jim Bowden went as deep as '"925 feet" and got the world record for man's deepest dive! He spent 9+ hours decompressing (probably in some local hyperbaric chamber), his other dive buddy a cave diving pioneer, Sheck Exley never returned...scary. Sheck, apparently invented the use of the "Octo" or Ocotpus/2nd-stage regulator (sometimes yellow and now an option on BC's). Jim's currently training to attempt to dive "all the way to the bottom" of the El Zacatón.Here's the El Zacatón story written by Dr. Ann Kristovich (holds world record for woman's deepest diver): <a class="user" href="http://www.iantd.com/articles/94-4kristovich.html">http://www.iantd.com/articles/94-4kristovich.html</a> These guys are amazing!!! - Or, at least to me they are!The 2nd deepest sinkholes are the the Vaucluse in France; 3rd, Boesmansgat in South Africa and 4th; Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas: <a class="user" href="http://speleonet.typepad.com/speleonet/2005/01/worlds_deepest_.html">http://speleonet.typepad.com/speleonet/2005/01/worlds_deepest_.html</a>
I actually once dreamt about a swimming pool that drained through a quite small hole in the floor. Then the whole floor collapsed and everyone fell into a sinkhole that looked like this one, only slightly bigger. It was large enough to easily swallow the Empire State Building three times. I wonder what I ate or drank the evening before...
How about: "I'm in yur holz, suckin' down yer town!"?or: "In Soviet Russia, sinkhole sucks you!"Wait a minute, that one makes no sense at all... :(But at least I'm pretty sure that the sinkhole won't blend.
frascellyboy273Feb 24, 2007
heres the website translated into something like...er is supposed to be english<a class="user" href="http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?type=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagbladet.no%2Fnyheter%2F2007%2F02%2F23%2F493090.html&text=&from=nor&to=eng">http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?type=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagbladet.no%2Fnyheter%2F2007%2F02%2F23%2F493090.html&text=&from=nor&to=eng</a>
tarnumFeb 24, 2007
It's another Hellmouth, just like the one in Sunnydale.
katbytesFeb 24, 2007
The deepest sinkhole is in northeast Mexico, El Zacatón; a water filled sinkhole/cenote over 1,000 (~330 meters) feet deep connected by a series of other cenotes - In 1994, scuba diver Jim Bowden went as deep as '"925 feet" and got the world record for man's deepest dive! He spent 9+ hours decompressing (probably in some local hyperbaric chamber), his other dive buddy a cave diving pioneer, Sheck Exley never returned...scary. Sheck, apparently invented the use of the "Octo" or Ocotpus/2nd-stage regulator (sometimes yellow and now an option on BC's). Jim's currently training to attempt to dive "all the way to the bottom" of the El Zacatón.Here's the El Zacatón story written by Dr. Ann Kristovich (holds world record for woman's deepest diver): <a class="user" href="http://www.iantd.com/articles/94-4kristovich.html">http://www.iantd.com/articles/94-4kristovich.html</a> These guys are amazing!!! - Or, at least to me they are!The 2nd deepest sinkholes are the the Vaucluse in France; 3rd, Boesmansgat in South Africa and 4th; Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas: <a class="user" href="http://speleonet.typepad.com/speleonet/2005/01/worlds_deepest_.html">http://speleonet.typepad.com/speleonet/2005/01/worlds_deepest_.html</a>
rgrandioFeb 24, 2007
holy hole!
fugaziFeb 24, 2007
O man you stole my line! Its exactly what I was thinking!
doctorlexFeb 26, 2007
I actually once dreamt about a swimming pool that drained through a quite small hole in the floor. Then the whole floor collapsed and everyone fell into a sinkhole that looked like this one, only slightly bigger. It was large enough to easily swallow the Empire State Building three times. I wonder what I ate or drank the evening before...
airshipFeb 26, 2007
How about: "I'm in yur holz, suckin' down yer town!"?or: "In Soviet Russia, sinkhole sucks you!"Wait a minute, that one makes no sense at all... :(But at least I'm pretty sure that the sinkhole won't blend.
imrankarimMar 8, 2007
that is no sewer leakage.imran karim