This Hole in the Nevada Desert Has No Bottom Anyone Has Found

Behind a chain-link fence in the Amargosa Desert, Nevada, sits a crack in the rock barely seventy feet long — and no diver has ever found where it ends. Divers have gone past four hundred feet into total darkness and come back with nothing but more water below them. This is Devils Hole: a detached, forty-acre sliver of Death Valley National Park, home to the only wild population on Earth of a fish that exists nowhere else, and the subject of a Supreme Court case that quietly rewrote American water law. In this video: the 1991 USGS dive that reached 436 feet without finding a floor, the earthquakes on the other side of the planet that make the water inside this tiny pool visibly slosh, the inch-long Devils Hole pupfish clinging to survival on a shelf of rock the size of a bedroom, and how a rancher's irrigation pump in 1968 ended up in front of the nation's highest court. #DevilsHole #Nevada #Geology #Archaeology #EndangeredSpecies #Pupfish #DeathValley #Earthquake #Groundwater #SupremeCourt #ScienceHistory #Genefall #Desert #NationalPark