This in Cenote Angelita cavern in Mexico. It is fresh water down to about 30 meters. At 30 meters there is a “lake” of hydrogen sulfide that sits atop 30 meters of salt water. Makes for a very interesting visual. Especially with the little “island” and tree branches. Came across this and thought it was pretty cool.
Very cool!
I love this kind of stuff.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
This in Cenote Angelita cavern in Mexico. It is fresh water down to about 30 meters. At 30 meters there is a “lake” of hydrogen sulfide that sits atop 30 meters of salt water. Makes for a very interesting visual. Especially with the little “island” and tree branches. Came across this and thought it was pretty cool.
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A couple more galleries of Cenote Angelita.
Everybody keeps calling the H2S layer a “Lake”. “Cloud” would probably be a better term. I’m curious if the H2S is suspended in the lower portion of fresh water, or the upper portion of the salt water. Of course this being a natural occurrence, and mother nature being one to despise defined boundaries, the H2S is probably suspended in the fresh water to salt water gradient/transition.
I think it would be fun to dive it twice. Once to see the cloud settled and intact. The second to see it agitated and swirling from many divers swimming thru it.
As long as the H2S stays in the water everybody will be happy. Heaven help the locals if all that H2S gets into the atmosphere.
i thought you were gonna talk about this. this really looks like a lake. its oil surrounded by mussels. they said they tried to submerge into it but they just bounced off. crazy shit.
I seen this on discovery channel. There is another thing that happens where the is split in two parts with one being heavier than the other. They video taped a guy what looked like he was coming up to the surface but it was just more water he was swimming in.
I forget what it was called but I’m sure someone could help me out. I’ll shall look for a link.
Found it. It starts at 8:50. Pretty cool.
These things are all fucking sweet, unfortunately, just like real lakes I get creeped out imagining what lurks beneath the surface 
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
Found it. It starts at 8:50. Pretty cool.[/quote]
is that the music from 300?
[quote]Bujo wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
This in Cenote Angelita cavern in Mexico. It is fresh water down to about 30 meters. At 30 meters there is a “lake” of hydrogen sulfide that sits atop 30 meters of salt water. Makes for a very interesting visual. Especially with the little “island” and tree branches. Came across this and thought it was pretty cool.
A couple more galleries of Cenote Angelita.
Everybody keeps calling the H2S layer a “Lake”. “Cloud” would probably be a better term. I’m curious if the H2S is suspended in the lower portion of fresh water, or the upper portion of the salt water. Of course this being a natural occurrence, and mother nature being one to despise defined boundaries, the H2S is probably suspended in the fresh water to salt water gradient/transition.
I think it would be fun to dive it twice. Once to see the cloud settled and intact. The second to see it agitated and swirling from many divers swimming thru it.
As long as the H2S stays in the water everybody will be happy. Heaven help the locals if all that H2S gets into the atmosphere.[/quote]
I figured that the H2S would be suspended in the upper portion of the salt water. I only say this because wouldn’t the H2S be a result of all the leaves,trees,etc that fall into the cavern’s saltwater?
And yes,I would not be comfortable swirling around a bunch of that stuff.
Makes me think about Lake Nyos in Africa that had a deep layer of CO2 that escaped when a landslide fell into it…and basically ran a “river” of CO2 down nearby valley. That gas killed numerous wildlife and about 1700 people.
Damn,I was looking up stuff about Lake Nyos…and found out about Lake Kivu. It’s 3000 times the size of Lake Nyos and has 350 times more gas(layers of CO2 and methane). 2 million people live around it…and has numerous fisheries. That lake is a time-bomb waiting to explode…definitely don’t want any earthquakes or volcanic eruptions in that area.
Also,this type of stuff should have been portrayed in 2012 movie…as this stuff would be effected by the Earth’s crust shifting…right? Definitely more interesting than the tired focus on giant earthquakes and super tsunamis. That movie was the same old garbage.
So that’s where the Creature from the Black Lagoon stays.
Those guys have bigger balls than I do. You wont catch me swimming around in dark areas.
I would be sacred shitless to dive that deep down. Those guys must live for it.
Big Boss posts the coolest natural phenomena pictures.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
This in Cenote Angelita cavern in Mexico. It is fresh water down to about 30 meters. At 30 meters there is a “lake” of hydrogen sulfide that sits atop 30 meters of salt water. Makes for a very interesting visual. Especially with the little “island” and tree branches. Came across this and thought it was pretty cool.
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Cool.
It gives me the heebeejeebees just thinking about diving in one of those underwater lakes.