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The Great Blue Hole in Lighthouse Reef, a submerged
cave some 1000 ft (303 m) in diameter and
400 ft (120 m) deep, was originally explored by
Jacques Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqualung.

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Islas Santanilla
(part of Honduras)

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Bajo Nuevo
(part of Colombia)

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C a r i b b e a n

Cayos Miskitos

Mos quito

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I. de Providencia
(part of Colombia)

I. de San Andrs
(part of Colombia)

Islas del Maz

Bluefields

Each chamber at Gatun Locks on the Panama Canal

is 110 ft (33 m) wide and 1000 ft (303 m) long.
The locks took four years to build and required
2 million cubic yards (1.5 million cu m)
of concrete.

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