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The last divers to venture into an underwater cave known as the "Blue Hole" in New Mexico were from the state police in 1976, and they were there to retrieve the bodies of two young divers who died while exploring. Upon exiting, the police divers sealed the opening with a grate that has kept anyone else from getting inside—until this weekend, reports LiveScience.
Expert divers from the ADM Exploration Foundation have gotten permission to remove the grate and see just where the Blue Hole leads. (This kind of cave diving is not for novice divers, explains a post at Gadling.)
"We really have no idea what exists beyond the grate," says a city official in Santa Rosa, maybe not coincidentally its tourism director. Perhaps the cave leads to a network of other caves? “We hope to discover large subterranean passages,” the ADM team leader tells the Albuquerque Journal. The police divers thought the Blue Hole was at least 225 feet deep, and the ADM folks will have equipment to get them to 350 feet. It's also possible, of course, that they'll be disappointed. One diver who went down in 1974, before the grate went up, thinks the police equipment overestimated the depth. He pegs it at 130 feet, max. We'll know soon enough, because the ADM team plans to map the cave and take video all the while. | LiveScience #end.
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Hundreds of gallons of Beaujolais Nouveau, the most popular wine in Japan, are used during the 12 day period the wine spa welcomes its guests. Four the last four years, Japanese wine lovers have had the opportunity to drink and bathe in the liquor they love so much, at the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun.
The red pool is constantly fed wine through the wine-bottle-shaped spring, while a sommelier stands by to fill up the glasses of those craving some more Beaujolais Nouveau.
Apart from a wine pool, the spa center also features a sake spa, green tea spa and coffee spa, where clients can bathe in the drinks mentioned.end.
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There is no such thing as a stupid question. Except when there is. Virgin Atlantic and Flight Centre have compiled a list of the strangest questions customers have asked.
2. What time does the three o’clock ferry leave?
3. My passport has expired, so can I get a new one when I get to London?
4. Can you withdraw
Australian money from international ATMs?
5. Do I have to use my
real name on my airline ticket?
6. What is the capital of Europe?
And what is the capital of Africa?
7. How is it possible that my flight leaves Sydney
at 10am and arrives in Vancouver at 10am on the same day?
8. How many cartons of cigarettes
can I take on my driving holiday in Queensland?
9. Do I need a passport to go to Hamilton Island,
because I am flying overseas?
10. Do you need a passport to travel to Tasmania?
And, what is the duty free allowance?
| news.com.au #end.
