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it's known as the Great Bahama Bank
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Cliff's taller than any found on dry land
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sore nearly 15,000 feet almost three times higher than the Grand Canyon
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closer to the shoreline another phenomenon
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some of the strangest geological rock formations found
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anywhere in the world
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they're called the blue holes gigantic underwater cavities extending hundreds
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of feet below sea level
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Dean's Blue Hole is the biggest and deepest of them all
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Tom I live is one of the world's leading Blue Hole experts and well aware of the
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dangers there have been instances where people get too close to the edge and
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there's a very steep slope of sand that drops down into the blue hole
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if you're not careful one step over the ledge and you go sliding down into it
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over the years
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Dean's blue hole has claimed several lives
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locals tend to keep their distance warned off by some alarming supernatural
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tales in the Bahamas
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there's a lot of stories and folk legends pertaining to blue holes
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one of them is that there's a monster called the lusca that lives down in the
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Blue Hole and the water coming in and out is actually the lusca this monster
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inhaling and exhaling water their stories of ships coming in close to the