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In Brazil, a karst sinkhole in a lake almost sucked in two fishermen along with a boat

Added	Thu, 06/04/2023
Источники	earth-chronicles.ru
Дата публикации	Thu, 06/04/2023
Версии	Karst, Karst holes, sinkholes

In Brazil, on April 4, two locals decided to go fishing, got into a boat and sailed to a fishing spot, and everything was fine until a sinkhole opened in the lake into which their watercraft began to drag.

Fishing immediately turned into a struggle for survival, and the fish just floundered in the mud around due to a sharp drop in the water level in the lake. the fishermen tried to pull out with ropes at first, but in the end they were rescued by driving a crane with which they were eventually pulled ashore. It was lucky that their boat was slightly larger in size than the crater formed at the bottom of the lake.

By the way, there is no lake there now. It's all gone into a sinkhole.