Top 10 Biggest holes on earth
Hello!
Welcome back to Most Amazing Top 10, I am Rebecca Felgate and let’s not beat around
the bush, today we are talking about big holes!
Get ready, as we’re going deep.
10 Guatemala City Sink Hole Pictures of this sink hole are absolutely
insane.
In 2010, disaster struck the Central American country of Guatemala, swallowing up a three
storey building.
The hole was vast at 65ft wide and 100 ft deep, making it one of the biggest sink holes
In history.
The hole formed as a result of a combination of factors, including a recent storm and leakage
from sewers.
The hole swallowed the lives 15 people.
Coming in at number 9, we have the world’s biggest glory hole!
The Lake Berryessa Glory Hole is a spill way 72feet wide and 200 feet deep that protects
against rising water levels.
Usually the hole is above water, but when water levels rise following storms, water
cascades down into the hole and looks really impressive.
The hole was last breached by water in February 2017.
When water is pouring into the hole, the images are incredible….it’s like someone pulled
the plug on the lake.
8 – Next up we’re talking about Deans deep blue hole….
Dean’s Blue Hole, off Long Island in the Bahamas was thought to be the worlds deepest
underwater sink hole until recently.
The hole is an underwater cavern of wonders and is 663 ft deep at its deepest point.
In the area surrounding the hole, the water is only waist deep.
The hole gets wider as you go down.
On the surface it is around 100 feet wide, but beyond 20 metres down, it is over 320
feet wide.
It is an ideal spot for divers…although I personally am a bit scared of a deep dark
blue hole!
Deeper than Dean’s hole, we have China’s DRAGON Hole at number 7.
DRAGON HOLE.
Do you think Dean might rethink naming his hole to something more dramatic?
This giant underwater hole was discovered in 2016 in the South China Sea.
The hole is an outstanding 987 feet deep, big enough to fit London Landmark The Shard
in it.
It is crazy to think that we only just discovered this part of our planet, although it is pretty
remote at 16.31 degrees north latitude and 111.46 degrees east longitude.
Fantastically, 20 marine species have been discovered in the cave.
Big in terms caaaaaaachhhing caching, at number 6 we have the Diavik Diamond Mine
This diamond mine is in the Northwest Territories of Canada, nearish Yellowknife.
The mine is still active and produces 7 million carats of diamonds annually….bear in mind
the cost of one carat is between three thousand to 27 thousand dollars.
The mine is around 820 feet deep…which is pretty darn cavernous.
Getting MUCH deeper from here in number 5 we have the Berkeley Pit in Montana.
This former copper mine one mile long and half a mile wide.
The hole is 1 thousand 780 feet deep, 900feet of which is filled with very acidic water.
The acidity of the water is PH 2.5, which is similar to the acidity of lemon juice.
Because of the corrosive nature of the water, various dangerous chemicals have developed
in the water from corroded metals and rock… making in a very poisonous deep hole.
Containing Arsenic and sulphuric acid, the hole has been known to kill hundreds of birds
and other wildlife.
Coming in to number 4 we have the Kimberley Diamond Mine
The Kimberly Diamond Mine is often simply referred to as Big Hole…which..yeah…
I guess!
The mine in Nothern Cape South Africa was shut down in 1914 because operations became
too dangerous.
In total, 13.6 million carats of diamonds were excavated from the site.
The hole is 1 thousand 500 feet wide and was once 3 thousand 600 feet deep at is furthest
point.
In the past 100 years, debris has fallen in, meaning the majority of the hole is just over
700 feet deep, 130 feet of which is filled with water.
Getting icy at number 3 - we have the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica
The IceCube, as it is often known, is a data collection centre examining Antarctic ice
and what is in it.
IceCube drilled a hole that reached over 8 thousand feet in depth … so around 5 and
a half empire state buildings deep.
The hole has revealed a lot of interesting findings, for example in 2013, it was announced
that research at IceCube had detected 28 elementary particles that are likely to have originated
from outside our own solar system.
This is ONE DEEP HOLE!
The Kola Superdeep hole is situated in Russia on the Kola Peninsula.
It took from 1979 to 1989 to drill about a third of the way through the Baltic Crust,
reaching a depth of 40 thousand 230 feet deep….. guys…..over 40 thousand feet!
The project was stopped at this depth because the heat was too much for the drills to function
at 180 degrees Celsius … it has been kind of covered up, but you should know that out
there somewhere is a whole that would fit 15 of the world’s tallest building – the
Burj Khalifa, in it..
Thinner than the Kola superdeep at number one we have the newest worlds deepest hole….
The Z-44 Chayvo well.
I feel like the Russian’s who named this hole could have learned a lesson from the
Chinese when naming their holes.
Why not the ZEUS HOLE or SUPER DRAGON hole something… but no…Z-44 Chayvo well it
is.
This well is 40 thousand and 604 feet deep….
Almost 400ft deeper than the Kola Superdeep – so this new hole…room for an extra 40
storey building on top of the Kola’s depth.
Dug in just two months, the hole took a lot less time than the Kola hole.
SO guys that was the top 10 biggest holes on earth …how do you feel about that….?
Would you ever want to travel down one of these holes?
If you had a deep hole…what would you name it.
Answer all of those important questions in the comments box below.