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by Owen Xu Li Belize’s Blue Hole is the world’s largest sinkhole, measuring 300 meters wide and 125 meters deep. In 1971, Jacques Cousteau put the Blue Hole on the map and made it a research and exploration site. Now, in 2019, …
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