Science The British billionaire Richard Branson popped up with a team of scientists to the bottom of the ‘Great Blue Hole’, the largest zinkgat in the world. The team was wonderful to capture images from the soil, 124 feet below the sea level. And thanks to a sonarscan we will soon see a highly detailed picture of the size of the zinkgat.
The Great Blue Hole lies off the coast of Belize in the Caribbean Sea and is 124 meters deep and 318 meters wide. The zinkgat speaks for years captured the imagination of scientists, but thanks to billionaire and Virgin boss Richard Branson, we now know how the zinkgat inside looks like. Branson declined in december, together with a team diepzeespecialisten of Aquatica Submarines, down to the bottom with a specially-equipped submarine.
Never before discovered stalactites
One of the most remarkable discoveries in the zinkgat were stalactites that have never previously been observed. According to scientists, it was zinkgat about 100,000 years ago a giant above-ground cave and saw the stalactites when the cave was not flooded. When the sea level rose, disappeared in the cave deep in the water, and collapsed the roof of the cave. But inside, it has the time as much as 100,000 years ago.
