A 43-foot sinkhole opened up during a pool party in central Israel, with one of the men sucked into the hole later being found dead.
shows the floor of the swimming pool, located in a private home in Karmei Yosef, central Israel, buckling and collapsing inwards, sucking in most of the pool water within seconds. Two men were swept into a vortex that dragged them into the sinkhole.i was later found dead. Six people were in the pool at the time and the rest were unharmed.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, while there are several ways that sinkholes can form, they usually occur when the ground below the land surface dissolves into the groundwater and is washed away, leaving an open cavern covered only by a thin layer of ground. Sinkholes are frequent in areas where the rocks are made from limestone, carbonate rock, or salt beds. Human action can also cause sinkholes to form, with groundwater pumping and construction practices changing the natural ground structure and theStock image of the Glory Hole spillway at Monticello Dam in Lake Berryessa, California. Water was sucked into a sinkhole that opened up in the home pool in Israel, dragging two men inside the chasm.
In Florida in 2010, over 100 sinkholes formed in Dover during a single freeze event, as the farmers irrigated their plants excessively to protect them from the cold lead to the ground water levels dropping enormously. In Israel, search teams built a support structure to prevent the pool floor from further collapsing onto them as they looked for the missing man. The search was complicated by the fact that there may have been secondary tunnels connected to the main sinkhole tunnel that could subsequently collapse as well, which would be very dangerous for the rescue teams.