Blue Hole - Santa Rosa New Mexico
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Geojeepsters
N 34° 56.387 W 104° 40.395
13S E 529838 N 3866413
A very nice sink hole in New Mexico.
Waymark Code: WMEVQF
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member caverspencer
Views: 31

from Wikipedia:

Blue Hole (New Mexico)

The Blue Hole of Santa Rosa is a circular, bell shaped pool east of Santa Rosa, New Mexico that is one of the most popular dive destinations in the US for SCUBA diving and training. It is a clear blue body of water with a constant 64 °F (18 °C) temperature and constant inflow of 3000 gallons per minute. While the surface is only 80 feet (24 m) in diameter, it expands to a diameter of 130 feet (40 m) at the bottom.

Since Route 66 and Interstate 40 pass through the Sandia Mountains on the way back to Albuquerque, NM, it is necessary for divers to use high-altitude dive tables to compute the dive profile and decompression stops when diving in the Blue Hole.

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