Blue Hole (New Mexico)
The Blue Hole of Santa Rosa is a circular, bell-shaped pool east of Santa Rosa, New Mexico that is one of the most popular dive destinations in the US for SCUBA diving and training. The Blue Hole is an artesian well that was once used as a fish hatchery. It is a clear blue body of water with a constant temperature and constant inflow of. While the surface is only in diameter, it expands to a diameter of at the bottom.
Since Santa Rosa, New Mexico is at an elevation of, it is necessary for divers to use high-altitude dive tables to compute the dive profile and decompression stops when diving in the Blue Hole.
The pool is open for public use with no lifeguards on duty.
On March 26, 2016, 43-year-old California diver Shane Thompson, a Navy veteran from the ADM Exploration Foundation, was exploring passageways where he became trapped and drowned.
