Once you submerge your head underwater, you’ll easily see why Jacques Cousteau famously called this tropical marine forest “the world’s aquarium”, and your mind will eventually perform a perfect somersault.Ī sea-desert ecosystem made known by Jacques Cousteau. The Denmark Strait Cataract is the world’s highest underwater waterfall. Denser, cold water flows southward in a deep current along the sea floor over an undersea ridge in the Strait. In Cabo San Lucas, besides the undersea waterfall of sand, you can also observe an impressive array of marine biodiversity, including fish and corals of all shapes and colors.
Here is another Youtube video, where the divers were obviously luckier than me. A popular viewpoint is Le Morne Brabant, a UNESCO World Heritage peak offering an unmatched vista of the majestic underwater falls. The Underwater Waterfall is a visual illusion formed by the movement of sand and silt sediments, driven by ocean currents. Technically, the largest known waterfall lies underwater, between Greenland and.
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You can’t really force nature to fulfill your expectations, but I’m grateful for it being full of bizarre phenomena. UNDERWATER WATERFALL, MAURITIUS It’s a mind-boggling underwater phenomenon, but you’ll need to get airborne to see it. 1.7K Share 253K views 6 years ago The worlds tallest waterfall is not actually Angel falls in Venezuela. Due to recent swells, there was no action at the largest sand falls on my diving day, thus I just did see a few tiny ones. The sand cascades here at the so-called ‘Land’s End’ are said to be formed by the friction between the tectonic plates of North America and the Pacific. While Mauritius is on my list, I got the chance to observe the sand falls phenomena in Cabo San Lucas (aka Los Cabos), an incredibly beautiful place where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez. The sights obviously won’t be comparable, but mind-boggling in the least. To be able to experience the one in Cabo San Lucas though, you must be a certified scuba diver and dive to a depth of over 30 meters. Now, the above image is from the web, depicting the one in Mauritius, where helicopter tours are available to view the phenomena from the air.
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