These are some of the most amazing holes you will find. I didn’t even know some of these existed until i seen the photographs.

Glory Hole - Monticello Dam

This one scares me for some reason, imagine getting sucked in! Anyways a Glory Hole is used on dams when the reservoir gets full and water needs to be drained away.

The sheer scale of this hole is realised in this shot below. The hole is part of the Monticello dam in California. This Big sucker can drain away nearly 14′400 cubic feet of water every second! :O

Here is the water being pumped out by gravity at the bottom of the dam. Its just like a big camocarzy slide! Weeeee! Plooop out the bottom… Who wants to go first?

 

 

Mirny Diamond Mine

This is a Diamond mine in Siberia and is absolutely massive! Shows how far we as humans will go for precious materials, especially diamonds for the ladies
This hole is mesures 1200 meters in diameter and is 525 meters deep…

Check out the picture below, the red arrow indicates a large truck inside the mine.

The mine has got a no-fly zone across it due to a few helicopter’s getting sucked in! Wow!

 

Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah

Extraction for this mine began in the 1860’s and still continues to this day. The hole is said to be one of the largest man made mines on the planet measuring over 1200 meters deep and over 4000 meters wide! And this is increasing in size all the time due to the on going excavation.

Kimberley big hole in south Africa

Here is another diamond mine in south Africa. It measures just under 1100 meters deep.

This mammoth of a hole brought out 3 tones of diamonds, i wonder who the lucky lady was?

Kimberley must have been the lucky gal

Great blue hole in Belize

This amazing phenomenon is the Great blue hole situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize. 1/4 mile wide and 145 meters deep. The dark water creeps me out but is a very popular diving site for many divers that come from all around the world to dive here.

 

 

 

 

 

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