“Beneath the Surface: What Dark Secrets Lurk in Belize’s Enigmatic Great Blue Hole?”

Have you ever heard of a place where the ocean practically swallows you whole? Yep, off the coast of Belize, you’ll find the Great Blue Hole—a ginormous underwater sinkhole that’s as mesmerizing as it is mysterious. Think of it like Mother Nature’s very own black hole—but instead of just a cosmic mystery, this watery cavern has a chilling reputation for claiming the lives of thrill-seeking divers! And if that’s not enough to pique your curiosity, the bottom of this abyss is littered with junk from various sunken treasures and… wait for it… the remains of divers who didn’t make it back. Talk about a graveyard for adventurers! While we could dive down and retrieve those remains, it’s been decided that it’s safer to let them rest there—forever. However, the Great Blue Hole isn’t just a spot for dive thrillers; it also holds key secrets about our planet’s climate history! Scientists have recently unearthed alarming evidence—as if 2020 wasn’t enough of a wake-up call—that hurricanes and tropical cyclones are becoming more frequent, a clear sign of the climate crisis we’re grappling with. So, grab your snorkel (or just your thoughts) as we dive deeper into the tale of the Great Blue Hole’s captivating secrets and startling revelations! LEARN MORE.

Did you know that off the coast of Belize there’s something called the Great Blue Hole?

It’s very much what the name describes it as, being a very deep pit in the ocean from which some people who dived in never emerged.

Unfortunately, for this spot of nature there’s a pile of rubbish from various sunken objects at the bottom of the hole, along with two corpses of divers who went missing on an expedition to the bottom of the hole.

While we have got the capabilities to reach the bottom of the hole, the human remains were not recovered as it was deemed safer to let them rest.

However, while some people’s interest in the Great Blue Hole is exploratory, others have a more scientific fascination with the place.

According to Live Science, when scientists took a sediment core from the Great Blue Hole they found evidence that tropical cyclones had been increasing in frequency for the past few millennia.

Scientists have been able to make a worrying discovery (Getty Stock Photo)

That doesn’t sound great, but the secrets within the sediment showed that the frequency of these punishing storms had risen significantly in the past two decades compared to the several thousand years that preceded it.

Dominik Schmitt, the study’s lead author, told the outlet that it was a sign of the impact climate change was having on our planet.

He said: “A key finding of our study is that the regional storm frequency has increased continuously since 5,700 years B.P. (before present).

“Remarkably, the frequency of storm landfalls in the study area has been much higher in the last two decades than in the last six millennia – a clear indication of the influence of Modern Global Warming.”

Since tropical cyclones are very destructive, more of them happening mean very bad things.

The Great Blue Hole contains many secrets, including dead bodies and the key to understanding the past six millennia of weather (Andre Seale/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

As for how the scientists were able to work all of this out, they were able to study the sediment from the bottom of the Great Blue Hole a bit like looking at the rings on a tree to figure out when new layers were added by a storm.

Schmitt explained that in around the past 6,000 years or so, there’s been ‘between four and 16 tropical storms and hurricanes’ going over the Great Blue Hole each century.

However, it’s gone from somewhere between four and 16 storms every 100 years to nine in the past 20 years alone.

A rise in global sea temperatures as a result of man made climate change is likely to have contributed to this, so if you think the only impact to global warming is that things will get a bit hotter that’s nowhere near it.

You can’t expect to f**k the planet and not expect the planet being f**ked to have some adverse effects.