Blue Holes. They're not exactly a rare sight here on San Salvador. Blue holes are defined as a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island composed of a carbonate bedrock (limestone or coral reef). Blue holes typically contain tidally-influenced water of fresh, marine, or mixed chemistry
Inkwell blue hole is an 8.5 meter deep, essentially, hole in the surface of the surrounding rock. Due to the large amount of tannins found about 3-4 meters deep, the blue hole is black. This dark color gives Inkwell its name.
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| Inkwell Blue Hole feat Matt (left), Dr. Rene's hair (center, left) and Andrew (Center). |
As a fairly common feature in the Bahamas, Inkwell also has some lore and myth surrounding it. The Lusca, a mythical giant octopus of the Caribbean, is supposed to have given inkwell its black color due to the ink that it might have ejected at some point. It is also believed that a Lusca resides in the blue hole itself.
According to cryptozoologists, it is assumed that a Lusca is actually decomp[osing adipose tissue from Sperm Whales. How it might have ended up in a blue hole is beyond most, but because of the enormous reported size of the Lusca, it is far too large to be a giant octopus.
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| Sperm Whale Blubber |
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| Enteroctopus dofleini, or the Pacific Giant Octopus |
Olivia Pate, 3/23/2018
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