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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    6 months ago

    So I remember launch day in SWOTOR. We rolled pubie, and the “capital hub” so to speak was coruscant, it was the world you were sent to after getting off the noob world.

    Some one was standing at the flight path for the hangar bay/capital building and stuff, looking over the side and wondering what was down there.

    So, I told him- sarcastically, I might add- that there was a loot chest with guaranteed epics, maybe even a legendary mount.

    I ran off cuz… launch day, had stuff to do…. About thirty seconds later I’m getting blasted in zone chat cuz the dumbass jumped.

    So somebody else told the guy he was jumping off the Wrong spot, go to the other corner. Look for the air vent.

    I feel bad for this guy, cuz he jumped like 3-4 times being a lootwhore before apparently retelling imp.