Access to flooded quarries varies, with some being repurposed as managed open water lakes or as the centrepiece in holiday villages, some being used informally for swimming and others closed to the public. Here’s what you need to know about the hazards in quarries.

Oct 11, 2023 · Back in 2014, aerial photographer Michael Hess sent his drone skyward over an abandoned rock quarry and found something incredible - and unexpected - submerged beneath the surface.

Jun 27, 2016 · While flying over an abandoned flooded quarry, this drone captured incredible footage of some extremely valuable things sitting just below the surface. Presented by YouTube channel "Droned Out," the video definitely makes you wonder what treasures could be lying on the murky floor of your local lake or pond.

Dorothea quarry is a disused slate quarry in the Nantlle Valley area in North Wales. It covers a large area near the village of Talysarn and contains three flooded deep lakes.

Jan 28, 2016 · There was a place in Iowa in 1995, tucked away in the dark-green fields of soybeans and corn, where a flooded rock quarry shimmered aquamarine. I stood on its edge one hot summer day with two friends. Like most teenagers, we were drawn to …

The Billmeyer Limestone Quarry (Bainbridge, PA) was a fantastic network of enormous pipes and kilns that once supplied area farmers with lime and provided dolomite to steel mills. The quarry flooded in 1961 and operations ceased; in 1983 the flooded quarry was …

Oct 9, 2021 · Flooded quarries are basically artificial lakes, so every reason why aquatic animals (including fishes) can live there. But how do they get there? How does an animal that needs to be in water to survive arrive in an area that wasn’t filled with water until recently?

Jul 2, 2009 · Police ruled the death of Victor Polanco, 17, who came to swim that day in the Westchester quarry with six friends from across the river in Rockland County, an accidental drowning. The...

The 20-hectare (50-acre) site in Gloucestershire was once a limestone quarry that was flooded in the 1990s and used by a dive school until 2022. Now, it is being transformed into a state-of-the-art facility that will feature accommodation units, a training school and a platform for mini submersibles to take people down to living spaces in the ...

Eccleston Quarry is a mile south of Eccleston, Lancashire. It is also called Eccleston Delph and Eccy Delph (pronounced "ekky"). It is an old stone quarry that flooded. It is a popular site for scuba diving.