Dersios sinkhole SELAS caving club in Greece has been exploring the cave, doubling the depth and more than tripling the length of the sinkhole. The new discoveries were made in 2003 by cave diving the first sump and emptying it by siphoning the water and in 2005 by emptying sumps in side passages of the sinkhole. Dersios sinkhole The Dersios sinkhole (Greek: Σπηλαιοκαταβόθρα "Ο Δέρσιος" "Spilaiokatavothra "O Dhersios"") is a sinkhole in Arcadia, Greece. The sinkhole, which has a depth of , has been known since antiquity and is located towards the north end of the plateau of Palaiochora at a height
Sinkhole spaces and caverns develop underground. These sinkholes can be dramatic, because the surface land usually stays intact until there is not enough support. Then, a sudden collapse of the land surface can occur. On 2 July 2015, scientists reported that active pits, related to sinkhole collapses and possibly associated with outbursts, were found on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the "Rosetta" space probe. Collapses, commonly incorrectly labeled as sinkholes also occur due to human activity, such as the collapse of abandoned mines and salt cavern storage in salt domes in places like Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. More commonly, collapses occur in