Sinkholes at Dead Sea may swallow up plans, people

Published July 3, 2009, 9:13 pm, Richmond Times-Dispatch

EIN GEDI, Israel—Eli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him. Fearing he would never be found alive in the 30-foot-deep pit, he scribbled his will on an old postcard. After 14 hours, a search party pulled him from the hole unhurt, and five years later, the 69-year-old geologist is working to save others from a similar fate. He is ...

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