Wednesday, April 05, 2006
The Blue Hole
April,2006
Long Island
http://www.verticalblue.net/deans.htm
A stunning blue hole, (The deepest in the world, 600’) surrounded by cliffs on 3 sides is located on this island.
You get to it by hitchhiking from the anchorage. After two lifts, we arrived and met up with two divers who are in training for world records for deep free-diving.
The competition is in Nice, France in May on the open ocean, and they train here since the surrounding reefs make the hole calm and enables them to train everyday.
They dive with only a small mask over their eyes and fins. Nothing else, except suit and weights.
To dive, they hang on the surface for about 15 min, then down they go. They dive to 270’ and are down for 3-4 min!
There is a website for this association:
And one of the divers has his own site:
Has to be seen to be believed!
