A bit like the Bermuda Triangle, few really know what is happening in the depths of the ‘Blue Hole’ in the middle of the Red Sea.
Some know it as the ‘diver’s cemetery’, due to all the bodies of people who practice this sport that have been recovered after their death inside this hole over the years.
‘The blue hole’
Located in the Indian Ocean, in the Red Sea, it is about a hole-shaped space 120 meters deep -as far as it is registered- and that has become an attraction for some professional and amateur divers.
Apparently, its origin dates back to when sea levels were much lower.
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Some people do not see it as something terrifying because it is not far from the coast, like many other holes of this type that exist in the open sea, so its access is relatively easy.
In fact, Tarek Omar, a certified diver who has circulated these waters with familiarity, spoke to the German newspaper ‘Der Spiegel’ and commented that precisely in how “easy” it may seem to dive into the hole is the problem: “No it is difficult to dive in the ‘Blue Hole’. On the contrary, and that’s what makes it risky, many divers underestimate the hole, which quickly turns it into a trap”.
Perhaps that is why, so far, the Egyptian authorities have up to 40 registered deaths, although it is estimated that it may be more.
The diver’s graveyard
According to some experts on the subject, there are several aspects of the hole that make diving there a high-risk activity.
First of all, some professional divers want to go through the ‘Arch’, an underwater arch that is more or less 52 meters deep, has a length of approximately 30 meters and connects to the open sea. However, this task can be difficult due to the pressure that the body handles in that arc and also the time it takes to return to the surface.
In second place, there are many people who enter without the proper equipment and try to get to the bottom of the hole. Therefore, they cause permanent damage to their lungs and possibly lose consciousness while trying to do so. As professional divers have mentioned, attempting to reach the bottom requires high amounts of nitrogen gas.
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Third, some people who have already entered the hole point out that its waters are deceitful and treacherous. The area has been described as “disorienting” by the Argentine media ‘La Nación’, this also because there is a light effect that makes divers confuse the bottom with the surface.
In some cases, when deep and for long periods of time, divers can feel disoriented and confuse what is up and down. In that sense, there is a type of phenomenon in the hole that makes you see a reflection of sunlight where the bottom of the well is actually, so some divers get confused and end up descending even further into the hole.
Fourth and last, there is a condition within this sport known as ‘nitrogen narcosis’, which, according to the specialized diving media ‘Open Water’, refers to when “the consciousness of the diver with a nitrogen gas bottle is altered due to the high solubility of this gas with water”.
The above has an effect that can appear at any depth, but is more noticeable the lower you go and is “like a drunkenness”, in which the diver may present “impaired logical reasoning, delayed response to visual stimuli, drowsiness and hallucinations” so it can be fatal if the person is several meters under water.
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fatal losses
There are some cases that marked the diving community. One of the most important, because it gave rise to research on the subject, is that of Yuri Lipski, a Russian-Israeli diver who in 2000 documented his attempt to descend to the bottom of the well, but died in the attempt.
However, the videos he recorded at that time managed to recover after some time and have made it possible to study what may be happening to people who go down to such a level of water.
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There is also the case of Bárbara Dillinger, an Argentine diver who, although she managed to surface after allegedly having a panic attack, died probably due to pulmonary decompression caused by how fast she went up.
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