Sinkhole

French speleologist and diver Frederic Swierczynski is the first man in history who went to the bottom of Red Lake near Imotski and succeeded, writes The Dubrovnik Times, quoted by Focus News Agency. The dive was done yesterday and lasted for four hours.

A giant sinkhole appeared in the middle of a busy Japanese city on Nov. 8, swallowing part of a five-lane street near the main railway station.

The gaping hole, around 30 meters (98 feet) wide, exposed pressure on support columns of nearby buildings at a traffic intersection in the southern city of Fukuoka, prompting fears of further collapses.

Scientists from China and France have discovered a rare doline in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the local publicity department said.

The 420-meter deep doline, or sink hole, was among a number discovered by scientists during an eight-day expedition that began on February 26 in Donglan County. The dolines found in Guangxi are normally around 250 meters deep.

A documentary has revealed that the tourist-drawing Cennet and Cehennem (meaning heaven and hell in English) Caves in the southern province of Mersin?s Silifke district have unofficially become garbage dumps. 

The Dead Sea is shrinking, and as its waters vanish at a rate of more than one meter a year, hundreds of sinkholes, some the size of a basketball court, some two stories deep, are devouring its shoreline A neglected grove of date palms, their leaves long fallen, trunks drooping in the searing heat at the lowest point on earth, is the latest casualty of a dramatic rise in sinkholes  wreak