How Blue Holes Work

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Geologists and biologists have recently realized that the planet’s oceans and coasts are littered with a unique type of ecosystem called blue holes, submerged sinkholes that were once dry caves. They are turning out to be weird and amazing places.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.6	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there.
0:46.4	Jerry's hovering about, and this is Stuff You Should Know, another Jazzy Earth Science
0:52.6	Edition Chuck.
0:54.6	Yeah, and this is like, I know we covered this, had to have been Internet Roundup.
1:00.7	Did we?
1:01.7	I don't think we covered, I mean we've done a lot of cave stuff.
1:05.4	We did sinkholes, cave dwellers, caveing, cave diving, and cave diving.
1:12.9	So which one, like it could have come up in cave diving I think?
1:17.3	Maybe, but I feel like I remember showing a picture.
1:19.5	I'm feeling Internet Roundup.
1:20.9	Okay, yeah, we've been, that's kind of funny because this then is the second thing we've
1:24.8	done that we already did on Internet Roundup and then forgot about.
1:28.5	That's right.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.