World’s biggest underwater cavern found in Mexico

A organisation of divers has found a tie between two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to be a biggest flooded cavern on a planet, a discovery that could assistance strew new light on a ancient Maya civilization.
 
The Gran Acuifero Maya (GAM), a plan dedicated to the study and refuge of a subterranean waters of a Yucatan peninsula, pronounced a 347-kilometre (216-mile) cavern was identified after months of exploring a obstruction of underwater channels. 

A scuba diver looks during an animal skull during Sac Aktun underwater cavern complement during scrutiny as partial of a Gran Acuifero Maya Project nearby Tulum, in Quintana Roo state, Mexico Feb 12, 2014. (Jan Arild Aaserud/Courtesy Gran Acuifero Maya Project (GAM) around Reuters)

Near a beach review of Tulum, a organisation found that the cave complement famous as Sac Actun, once totalled during 263 kilometres is connected to the 83-kilometre Dos Ojos system, GAM pronounced in a statement. 

A scuba diver measures a length of Sac Aktun underwater cavern system. The Gran Acuifero Maya (GAM), a plan dedicated to a investigate and refuge of a subterranean waters of a Yucatan peninsula, pronounced a 347-km (216-mile) cavern was identified after months of exploring a obstruction of underwater channels. (Herbert Mayrl/Courtesy Gran Acuifero Maya Project (GAM)/Handout around Reuters)

GAM executive and underwater archeologist Guillermo de Anda said a “amazing” find would assistance researchers to know a development of a abounding enlightenment of a region, that was dominated by the Maya civilization before a Spanish conquest.

“It allows us to conclude most some-more clearly how the rituals, a event sites and eventually a great pre-Hispanic settlements that we know emerged,” he told Reuters.

Guillermo de Anda, executive of a Gran Acuifero Maya plan pronounced a ‘amazing’ find would assistance researchers to know a growth of a abounding enlightenment of a region, that was dominated by a Maya civilization before a Spanish conquest. (Daniel Becerril/Reuters)

The Yucatan peninsula is studded with staggering corpse of the Maya people, whose cities drew on an endless network of sinkholes related to subterranean waters famous as cenotes.

Some cenotes acquired sold eremite stress to the Maya, whose descendents continue to live a region. 

Scuba divers debate an certified area of Sac Aktun underwater cavern complement as partial of a Gran Acuifero Maya Project nearby Tulum, in Quintana Roo state, Mexico Jan 24, 2014. (Herbert Mayrl/Courtesy Gran Acuifero Maya Project (GAM)/Handout around Reuters)

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