The incident happened in central Israel during a pool party being held for employees of a private company, according to local news reports.
The sinkhole in the swimming pool is pictured on July 21, 2022, in Karmei Yosef, Israel.
Authorities said fears of a secondary collapse made the rescue more complicated. As a result, the team built a support structure to prevent the swimming pool’s surface from further collapsing during the search for the man’s body — which was later located. appears to show when the swimming pool first collapsed. Several people can be seen in the pool as the sinkhole appears, sending bystanders fleeing out of the pool and pool floats barreling toward the center.
Bublil added that the swimmers may have thought it was a game, perhaps not realizing they were in danger. They are most common in areas where the types of rock below the land surface can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through them. This includes soluble rocks like salt beds and domes, limestone, gypsum, and other carbonate rock, the USGS says.
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