A distressing story has resurface on Reddit over the last few day , concerning a humankind who was swallowed up by a sinkhole in Florida on March 1 , 2013 .
Jeff Bush , 37 , was asleep when a sinkhole open up up beneath his home in Seffner , Florida . The trap – about 6 meter ( 20 feet ) across and deep , according toThe Guardian – opened up beneath his bedroom , which was hear by his brother Jeremy , and Jeremy ’s pardner Rachel from another way .
" We heard Jeff screeching , " Rachel toldABC Action Newsat the fourth dimension . " We ran down the hall , I flick the light on and we opened up the door and it ’s all we ’ve run into was a big old jam , and Jeff was gone . "
Jeremy jump out down into the jam to set about to rescue his brother but had to be pull to safety machine by a Hillsborough County surrogate sheriff as the ground around him persist in to cave in .
" The base was still yield in and the grime was still lead down , but I did n’t manage . I wanted to save my comrade , " Jeremy narrate The Guardian . " But I just could n’t do nothing . "
" I could imprecate I hear him hollering my name to help him . "
Rescuers were ineffectual to locate Bush ’s body from the sinkhole , which swallowed bedroom furniture along with him . The following solar day , engineers determined that the firm and land were too grave to make further attempts at saving , and it was instead destroy and the hole itselffilled with crushed rock . A few years later , the swallow hole give once more at the situation , now fenced off from the public .
Florida , rich in limestone , is especially susceptible to sinkholes .
" sink are most coarse in what geologists call , ' karst terrain ' , " theUS Geological Surveyexplains . " These are regions where the types of rock below the land surface can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through them . Soluble rock include saltiness beds and domes , gypsum , limestone and other carbonate rock . "
With the rock underneath dissolved away , underground caverns are left underneath the control surface . When the weakened surface collapses into the cavern , it creates a swallow hole . They vary in size , from very small to the vast one understand at Xiaozhai Tiankeng , known as theXiaozhai Heavenly Pit . The sink , consider to be the declamatory in the world , measures around 537 meters ( 1,762 feet ) wide of the mark and 662 meters ( 1,667 - 2,172 feet ) cryptical .
