Eagle News — China has discovered the “World’s Largest Hole”, state broadcaster CCTV announced on Wednesday July 27, saying a 300m cavern in a disputed area of the South China Sea is deeper than Dean’s blue hole in the Bahamas, the official world’s deepest salt water blue hole.
Named the “Dragon’s hole”, the blue hole lies within the disputed Paracel Islands, administered by china but also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam.
Professor Yang Zuosheng of the Ocean University of China, Said Researchers had used a variety of methods to ascertain the hole’s depth.
Scientists said blue holes were formed during previous ice ages. Chinese scientists will continue to study the marine life within the hole, though due to its depth water beyond a certain level becomes oxygen-free, meaning few creatures are likely to be found in the very lowest reaches.
