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South China Sea Blue Hole is The World’s Deepest Dragon Hole, or Longdong, (300, 89 meters deep). That is far deeper than the previous record holder, Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas.
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  • Rui Rocha

    South China Sea Blue Hole Could Be World’s Deepest
    Aerial view of the experts and staff exploring the Sansha Yongle Blue Hole on July 24, 2016 in Xisha Islands, Sansha City, Hainan Province of China Credit: Luo Yunfei/CNSPHOTO/VCG
    A new exploration of a legendary blue hole in the South China Sea has found that the underwater feature is the deepest known on Earth.
    According to Xinhua News, Dragon Hole, or Longdong, is 987 feet (300.89 meters) deep, far deeper than the previous record holder, Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas. (That blue hole measures about 663 feet, or 202 m, deep.) According to Xinhua, local legend holds that Dragon Hole is mentioned in the Ming dynasty novel “Journey to the West,” in which a supernatural monkey character gets a magical cudgel from an undersea kingdom ruled by a dragon.
    The findings have yet to be confirmed or reviewed by scientists in the field, but if they hold up, the measurements peg Dragon Hole as far deeper than Dean’s Blue Hole, said Pete van Hengstum, a marine geologist at Texas A&M University at Galveston, who conducts research on blue holes and sinkholes throughout the Caribbean region.
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