Sir Richard Branson’s Diving Expedition Into the Blue Hole of Belize Leads to a Miraculous yet Troubling Discovery

The Arch

What makes this Blue Hole so dangerous is a structure, called the arch—a tunnel under the reef that links the Blue Hole to the Red Sea. While there’s no nitrogen sulfide down there, there is an invisible presence known as nitrogen narcosis that disorients divers on their way down…

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