Deep Dark Secrets

Originally posted by SeventhSeal
It's a shame that our species contributes to nature in a negative way with waste and junk. As for the discovery of this and various other species down there...well, that's simply amazing.

Who knows what creatures we'll come across some day....or what creatures we'll startle after a long rest

I don't think our negative contributions to nature are an inherent result of our "species" but rather our current culture. Men have long lived in harmony with nature and can, and hopefully will, do so again.

Awesome thread S&F

edit for forgotten kudos

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Underwater caves are something to behold.

For example, victims who've drowned in New Mexico's 'Bottomless Lake' have had their corpse come to the surface in lakes in either Nevada and/or Texas. They've put grates on the entrances to the underwater caves of 'Bottomless Lake' so that drowning victims don't go floating off to other states.

Cave divers familiar to Florida's underwater caves claim that if the scuba technology were available, one could submerge into a cave in Central Florida, to emerge from a cave out in the Bahamas.

Some day the diving technology may come where these diving forays can be made by the living.

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Did you know there is actually a conspiracy in existence that claims the US navy makes use of these subterranean tunnels. Apparently there is a navy base in the middle of Nevada, at a small lake. They are a sub marine institute.

nice but we never seem to get anywhere here people are always going in circles untill the non insiders get inside the deep underground where other THINGS ARE - YOU KNBOW WHAT I MEAN-- WELL SOME OF YOU DO ANYWAY-- untill then we will be exactly where they want us to be

These holes bear resemblance to meteor craters...

Cristal clear water....as if those divers are floating in space.....very nice pictures alltogether.

I particulairy like the one made at dusk and the divers floating on the surface.

As if they have found paradise....

Originally posted by sputniksteve
Awesome pictures! I don't have time to check this, but the info on the world record holding Free Diver; 4 minutes and a depth of almost 320ft!! Can you even do that depth in that amount of time without decompressing properly? I don't think you can honestly, but I am not sure.

You don't have to sit and decompress when your on one natural breath, your body does that when you come up. Only Scuba-mixed gases require you to decompress.

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Awesome pics ...

from the title , I thought it might be

the Bill and Hillary biog......

Originally posted by TV_Nation
So true... The sad thing is that our garbage made it there before we did

no doubt!
we humans are such clods, aren't we?
but i hold hope forever close to my heart that we are not yet even mature in the way of sentient being-ness.

these images are awesome!
i've been fascinated by "blue holes" ever since i first heard about them.

i don't have the nerve to do what these divers do.

so mysteriously beautiful!

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I know several professional military divers. They simply can't get enough. In the water they're free and ultimately happy. They use every spare time they have to travel around the Europe and the globe just to find somewhere where they can dive and go deeper and deeper, explore, watch the sea life, feel complete serenity and calmness of the sea.
It's an addiction which all divers share. Those who were born to do this, that is.
I wonder if anyone explored these holes completely? Guess that's impossible, but I suppose that the Navy did scout them. They try to peek their nose everywhere just to find something that can be used for military purposes.

it never fails to amaze me,how fantastic a place our planet is .

Hi! Wow what fabulous gorgeous photographs! Thanks for sharing!
I went to photography school and got a BFA, instead I ended up rehabbing several gross houses. The photography industry was very sexist in the 1980s. I wish I had the opportunity to be a national geographic photographer. My humanitarian efforts went into recycling housing, definitly not as exciting.

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S&F OP

I too saw a tv program but they did not show lots of these pics and also did not explain it very welll
These pics are great and have more info
Thanks .....

Beautiful and shocking photos! The trash being swept in is very unfortunate! S&F This is reason I keep coming back to ATS. It's nice to see threads like this amongst all the CRAP!

Where's the thread about India's Kaziranga National Park? I haven't found it yet, but I'm sure it's here somewhere.

It never fails, once a month (just after the new issue of National Geographic arrives) someone posts a thread about one or more articles they just published.

This month it's Bahama's Blue Holes:Here's a link to NatGeo's site with the published work.

Never the less it was a great article, as are most that grace the pages of NatGeo.

If you get a chance check out the article about 47 million year old whales with legs. Fascinating.

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Ultimate post

these places are truly where humans need to go,
exploring is fundamental to myself as a human.

great story as well,
let`s see some more picts off world one day!

Originally posted by Sinter Klaas
reply to post by fred call

 

Did you know there is actually a conspiracy in existence that claims the US navy makes use of these subterranean tunnels. Apparently there is a navy base in the middle of Nevada, at a small lake. They are a sub marine institute.

Have you ever looked at the satellite photos of the sub base at King's Bay . Georgia ?

A lot of camoflaged stuff on those! Looks like there are tunnels leading inland at that base!

This is the base:


This looks camoflaged to me.





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Amazing pics! I want to bad to go there. My grandfather went when I was little, told me all about it may years later. I just think the Bahamas is such a beautiful place. Well, maybe someday if I am lucky, fingers crossed!

Originally posted by glad_to_be_His

Originally posted by SeventhSeal
It's a shame that our species contributes to nature in a negative way with waste and junk. As for the discovery of this and various other species down there...well, that's simply amazing.

Who knows what creatures we'll come across some day....or what creatures we'll startle after a long rest

I don't think our negative contributions to nature are an inherent result of our "species" but rather our current culture. Men have long lived in harmony with nature and can, and hopefully will, do so again.

Awesome thread S&F

edit for forgotten kudos

[edit on 31-7-2010 by glad_to_be_His]

I would tend to agree with that and expand upon that idea. For most of our history we have lived in balance with nature and are used to returning our daily products whatever they may be to the earth. But when we moved to an industrial society or refuse and waste was not nature friendly. One example being our plastics industry. Being petroleum by-product it is of course made from natural material which had been degraded over time but the end product of plastics are not as degradable as our previous refuse. I'm sure we are coming close to ruining a lot of viable research areas due to our negligent wastefulness one example being that garbage hole.

ok, this is extremely interesting and i honestly have never heard of this before i found it on ATS. However, I have one question that i'm hoping someone can answer since im a tad confused. Since the hydrogen sulfer gas substance that is shown in the pictures is supposed to be toxic/poisonous, i'm guessing it's not corrosive or poisonous to the human flesh but to the ingestion of it? I'm just asking because in the pictures he is in the gas and his neck and part of his face is exposed and i was unsure.
Thanks !