Dean's Blue Hole is a blue hole located in The Bahamas in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island and is the world's second deepest, after the Dragon Hole in the South China Sea, with a depth of 663 feet.
The most spectacular thing about this blue hole is the beach that surrounds it. It's enclosed on three sides by a natural rock amphitheater, and on the fourth side by a turquoise lagoon and powdery white beach. However there is a very sleep slope that goes straight down into the hole. It was pretty chilly so we didn't get in.
I'm glad that we didn't because I started researching a memorial that is next to the hole with three angel statues. It turns out that three people died in one day in the blue hole. I also found out that a lot of people have died there. I also learned that none of the locals will swim in the Dean's Blue Hole. They say there is a riptide that pulls people down! I'm not sure but I don't want to find out.
Scientists debate how exactly did Dean's Blue Hole was formed, most geologists think that it formed due to underwater erosion; a combination of dissolving limestone and a chemical reaction that happens when fresh water and salt water meet.
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