Underwater Exploration | MCQs

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In 2018, archaeologists discovered the world's largest flooded cave, named Nohoch Nah Chich, in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

The cave measures approximately 15 kilometers (9 miles) in length and 150 meters (490 feet) in depth.

It was explored and mapped by a team of divers and archaeologists, who discovered ancient Mayan artifacts and fossils of extinct animals.

Explanation

Researchers discovered the world's deepest known blue hole in Mexico.

The blue hole is named as 'Tam Ja Blue Hole (TJBH). 

Taam Ja' Blue Hole is the deepest known underwater sinkhole in the world, researchers have discovered — and they haven't even reached the bottom yet.

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Explanation

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia; east of the Balkan Peninsula, south of the East European Plain in Eastern Europe, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia in Western Asia.