The Biggest Hole in the World

Posted by John Farrier in Travel & Places on August 18, 2008 at 10:55 pm



It’s a diamond mine in Mirna, Siberia.  It measures 525 m deep and 1.25 km in diameter.  The suction from the hole is so powerful that helicopters flying over it have crashed.  Link via Absolute Moral Authority


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9 comments to "The Biggest Hole in the World"

  1. BJN
    August 18th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    Suction? Since when did an open pit mine have "suction"? The Bingham Canyon copper mine here in Utah is over 1.2 km deep and 4 km wide. I bet our mine sucks more than the Siberian's.

  2. Kum HIa Nao.com
    August 19th, 2008 at 7:27 am

    I opened it half expecting it to be a yo-mama joke and was mildly disappointed it was taken so literal

  3. CheeseDuck
    August 19th, 2008 at 8:06 am

    Holes have suction?

  4. Adam Stanhope
    August 19th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Suction?

  5. anon
    August 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    @KHN.com - I was sorely tempted, but assumed someone else would pick up the slack.

  6. ...tom...
    August 19th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    ...
    I was 'sucked' in to comment . . .suction..??

    ...tom...
    .

  7. ted
    August 19th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    I hear Virgil gives guided tours of it.

  8. fa kh
    August 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    the wider it is the less suction it would have

  9. Arbroath Smokie
    November 18th, 2008 at 6:06 am

    The biggest hole in the world isn't in the states, its in Scotland, the biggest Hole in the world is Dundee, Obviously due to the High presence of Kappa Slappa's Dundee's Just full of Scum, Hence Dundee is the biggest Hole in the world


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