Otkrivena tajanstvena rupa u Velikom koralnom grebenu

Morsko dno još je prepuno tajni, ali ono što su ronioci pronašli zaista je veliko otkriće.

Veliki koralni greben je poznat kao jedno od čuda prirode. Proteže se preko 2.300 kilometara u dužinu, a ovaj zapanjujući ekosistem uz istočnu obalu Australije sastavljen je od brojnih koralnih grebena i malenih ostrva.

Ali, problem je što ovo čudo prirode tokom posljednjih decenija ubrzano propada i prijeti mu nestanak. Upravo zato posljednje otkriće naučnika je itekako ohrabrujuće, prenosi N1.

Yesterday's Blue Hole mission in the Great Barrier Reef. This Blue Hole has previously been explored and documented by geologists who suggested it could be even older than the famous Great Blue Hole, in Belize. It's location is in one of the least explored parts Great Barrier Reef, over 200km from our home on Daydream Island. To get there we had to travel overnight for 10 hours and time the tides perfectly... Was well worth it! Inside the walls was similar to the site we explored a few weeks back, but this hole was deeper and almost perfectly circular. We dived down to just over 20m yesterday, before hitting bare sediment, that slowly sloped towards the centre. Again it was great to see big healthy coral colonies. Stay tuned for video footage of the coral within...

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Usred koralnog grebena pronađena je velika rupa koja se spušta 20-ak metara u dubinu, a u njoj su pronađene zdrave kolonije korala.

"Putovali smo 10 sati do plave rupe, ali je vrijedjelo. Zaronili smo na dubinu od 20 metara i pronašli zdrave kolonije korala", kazao je jedan naučnik.

Ovo je velika vijest za Australiju i cijeli svijet jer bi nakon dodatnih istraživanja ovaj ograničeni ekosistem mogao da ponudi rješenje kojim bi se zasutavilo propadanje korala.