{"id":6487,"date":"2011-02-21T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:56:58","slug":"the-underwater-realm-that-inspired-the-movie-sanctum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/the-underwater-realm-that-inspired-the-movie-sanctum","title":{"rendered":"The Underwater Realm That Inspired the Movie &#8216;Sanctum&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6491 alignnone\" title=\"dans-cave-abaco\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dans-cave-abaco-800x248.jpg\" alt=\"Dan's Cave in Abaco, Bahamas\" width=\"480\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dans-cave-abaco-800x248.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dans-cave-abaco-150x46.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dans-cave-abaco-250x77.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dans-cave-abaco.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No, it&#8217;s not a still from Sanctum  &#8211; although James Cameron&#8217;s new diving film was inspired by a  near-catastrophic expedition by the man who took these pictures, Wes C  Skiles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is a real  photograph from one of the most mysterious environments in the world.  You could visit Abaco Island, in the Bahamas, and have no idea that  beneath you lies this vast network of caves, accessible by as many as a  thousand &#8216;blue holes&#8217; &#8211; submerged vertical caves peppered with entrances  to this forbidding domain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6494\" title=\"blue-hole\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blue-hole-800x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blue-hole-800x311.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blue-hole-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blue-hole-250x97.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/blue-hole.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sadly, the photographer who took these pictures, <\/span>acclaimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2010\/07\/22\/national-geographic-photographer-wes-skiles-dies-during-dive\/\" target=\"_blank\">underwater photographer Wes Skiles<\/a>,<span> died <\/span>last year after finishing an assignment for National Geographic where he was diving off the eastern coast of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cameron&#8217;s new diving film was inspired by a near-catastrophic expedition by acclaimed underwater photographer Wes Skiles, known also for his striking images of underwater caves and blue holes in The Bahamas.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[143,46,59],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-beach","tag-celebrities","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}