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Scientists believe Belize's Great Blue Hole hides a 'concerning secret'

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Published 20:45 4 Apr 2025 GMT+1

Scientists believe Belize's Great Blue Hole hides a 'concerning secret'

What is it? It's a secret...

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Images

Topics: Global Warming, Science, Environment, World News

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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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.

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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)
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.

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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)
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.

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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.

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