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The Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km ) from the mainland and Belize City.
It was formed during several episodes of quaternary glaciation when sea levels were much lower.
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The Great Big Hole was formed about 15,000 years ago
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Geological forces created what is now known as the Belize Blue Hole, a nearly perfectly circular expanse of sapphire water
Deaths. The number of diver deaths in the Blue Hole is not known, one source suggests 130 in the last fifteen years. A notable death was that of Yuri Lip ski, a 22-year-old Russian-Israeli diving instructor on 28 April 2000 at a depth of 115 meters after an uncontrolled descent.