National Geographic Bahamas Blue Holes

Friday, April 22, 2011

National Geographic Bahamas Blue Holes

Archaeologist Michael Pateman lifts a centuries-old Lucayan Indian skull from a gridded site 110 feet down in Sanctuary Blue Hole on Andros Island.Brian Kakuk has an arsenal of offbeat tools for gathering samples. An inflatable lift bag brings a stalagmite to the surface to be studied for evidence of abrupt climate changes in the past.Brian Kakuk uses a turkey baster to collect red dust blown from the Sahara in ancient times.

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