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Pan from dead sea shore to sinkholes2. Wide of man and woman floating in the sea3. Tilt down from chopper to road next to dead sea shore4. Sign reads \"Beware! Sinkholes Area Ahead\"AP...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eDead Sea, Israel, 4th May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Pan from dead sea shore to sinkholes\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of man and woman floating in the sea\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tilt down from chopper to road next to dead sea shore\u003cbr/\u003e4. Sign reads \"Beware! Sinkholes Area Ahead\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eSinkholes site next to Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel 4th May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e5. Ein Gedi resident and Geologist Eli Raz walking next to sinkhole \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE(English) Ein Gedi resident and Geologist Eli Raz that fell into a sinkhole 6 years ago:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As long as the level of the Dead Sea was high enough, the level of the sea water here in the coast was also high enough and prevented the ground water to make contact, to be in contact, with the salt layer and nothing happened. But due to the rapid drop, the ground water are now facing with the salt rock and the salt rock is undergoing a very rapid dissolution. Cavities are formed inside and eventually the surface collapse down to the cavities and these are the sinkholes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eVNR/Israeli Rescue Unit \u003cbr/\u003eDead Sea area, Israel, 17th April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e7. Israeli hiker that fell into sinkhole taken out by rescue teams and being transferred to stretcher\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eSinkholes site next to Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel, 4th May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e8.SOUNDBITE (English) Eli Raz, Ein Gedi resident and Geologist, that fell into a sinkhole 6 years ago: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I just remember that I was busy by documenting a new sinkhole and then suddenly I found myself covered by a pile of avalanche on the bottom of a sinkhole, that's it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Pan sinkholes under area that  used to be Ein Gedi's resort for tourists\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ein Gedi resident and Geologist (that fell into a sinkhole 6 years ago) Eli Raz: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It is very hard to explain in a television interview how I felt 14 hours in a sinkhole. I just can tell you that it was terrible, very frightened and in the first place, in the beginning, I started to write my will, without knowing that somebody will find it of course.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e11. Raz observing sinkholes at site\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television News\u003cbr/\u003eDead Sea Shore, Israel 4th May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan beach to people bathing in Dead Sea\u003cbr/\u003e13. Medium of man covered with mud floating \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of people bathing inside the Dead Sea\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eSinkholes site next to Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel, 4th May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE(English) Ein Gedi resident and Geologist Eli Raz: \u003cbr/\u003e\"People lost their jobs, lost their sources of income. All this area that promoted itself by...for tourism...so I think that the government must make much more about it, first of all to help the people to let them find other ways of living, and then to invest money in order to stop the phenomena.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eHotels area by the Dead Sea's shore, Israel, 4th May 2009\u003cbr/\u003e16. Exterior of hotel\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Geophysical Institute of Israel's teams around site suspect with sinkholes potential\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close up of sign on truck reads: \"The Geophysical Institute of Israel\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of teams evaluating salt levels in the ground next to hotels area\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Dr. Michael G. Ezersky, Senior Geophysicist, The Geophysical Institute of Israel: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Our research is focusing on tracing the salt and the sweeter (non salted) water under the ground because that (referring to  blending of the sweet water and the salt which melts the salt) will create a sinkhole.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Medium of salt detecting equipment\u003cbr/\u003e22. Hammer banging on surface in order to measure salt levels in the ground \u003cbr/\u003e23. Geophysicist checking salt levels as they appear on computer's screen\u003cbr/\u003e24. Medium of levels on screen\u003cbr/\u003e25. Close up of computer note reads \"Noise Display\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of Geophysics in work\u003cbr/\u003e27. Zoom out of Geophysics equipment planted in the ground\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lev Eppelbaum, Associate Prof. Department of Geophysics, Tel Aviv University: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We need a set of Geophysics methods to investigate this phenomena. Only gravity methods or maybe only seismic methods is not sufficient for studying this problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide of small sinkholes\u003cbr/\u003e30. Zoom in on sinkhole that is being formed\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lev Eppelbaum, Associate Prof. Department of Geophysics, Tel Aviv University: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We developed a methodology of combining geophysical prediction of sinkholes appearing at the Dead Sea costal plane. What we have (as) a problem now is we need to create at least few geophysical teams with the aim of constant geophysical monitoring of the dangerous area.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32.Tilt up from sinkhole to Dead Sea Shore     \u003cbr/\u003eGiant signs on the road leading to the Dead Sea in Israel are warning tourists and hikers that the ground could give way any time.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Geological Survey of Israel are warning that Sinkholes, or surface depressions are appearing on the western coast. \u003cbr/\u003eThe holes form when an underground salt layer that once bordered the sea's famously salty water is dissolved by a layer of fresh groundwater that follows the sea's receding path. \u003cbr/\u003eThe parched moonscape of the Dead Sea's shoreline is the lowest point on earth and runs more than 60 miles through Israel and the West Bank. \u003cbr/\u003eLarge sections of the coast are fenced off and signposted in Hebrew and English: \"danger, open pits\" and \"sinkhole area ahead.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBut it's too expensive to inspect every place for danger. \u003cbr/\u003eJust two months ago an Israeli hiker wandered into an area that had no warning signs and was critically injured when he fell into a sinkhole.\u003cbr/\u003eSinkholes, or surface depressions, exist in practically all countries of the world, including around the Dead Sea, on both the Israeli and the Jordanian side. \u003cbr/\u003eThe cavities are caused by the alarming drop in the Dead Sea's water level due to limited rainfall, the diversion of much needed water from its upstream sources, pollution, and industrial evaporation of water by the Dead Sea mineral industry. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Dead Sea is shrinking  and the shrinkage raises the salinity of the surrounding soil and causes erosion. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen the water from upstream meets the salt layer, cavities are created. Those cavities will eventually become sinkholes.\u003cbr/\u003eDetecting potential sinkholes is crucial because they not only damage the environment, but pose a direct threat to the tourist industry and agriculture. \u003cbr/\u003eSinkholes cave in and expand so fast that a one metre (3.28 feet) hole can become 10 meters (32.8 feet) deep in just three years. \u003cbr/\u003eThe hazard has forced the closure of popular resorts, halted construction of new hotel complexes and delayed the expansion of lucrative date groves. \u003cbr/\u003eEli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him. \u003cbr/\u003eFearing he would never be found alive in the 10-meter-(30 foot-) deep pit, he scribbled his will on an old postcard.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter 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, leading an effort to map the sinkholes that are spreading on the banks of the fabled saltwater lake.\u003cbr/\u003eThese underground craters can open up in an instant, sucking in whatever lies above and leaving the surrounding area looking like an earthquake zone.\u003cbr/\u003eRaz is a biologist, geologist and environmental advisor and he has been researching the sinkholes phenomena around his home for years. \u003cbr/\u003eHe believes that the Israeli government is not doing enough to learn about the phenomena and to find ways to prevent cases like his from happening again, as it did with the Israeli couple last month. \u003cbr/\u003eThese underground pits can now be better detected by a new monitoring system that was developed by a researcher from Tel Aviv University, Dr. Lev Eppelbaum. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Geophysical Institute of Israel is also mapping the costal area of the Dead Sea in order to monitor the sinkholes from their early stages. \u003cbr/\u003eEvery time the budget allows it, small teams from the Geophysical Institute are spending the day around the hotel strip of the Dead Sea, mapping the salt layer and delineating its lateral boundaries. \u003cbr/\u003eAs the surface gets saltier the chances of it meeting fresh water coming from upstream sources get higher. \u003cbr/\u003eIf this meeting happens, the chances of a sinkhole being created are higher as well.\u003cbr/\u003eDr. Michael G. Ezersky, Senior Geophysicist in The Geophysical Institute of Israel is the head of the field crew. \u003cbr/\u003eHis aim is to locate sinkholes when they are being created and to follow them until they become a hazard to people and structure around them. \u003cbr/\u003eNowadays the major sinkholes hazards exist in the northern basin of the Dead Sea where the sea level has dropped to 30 meters (98.4 feet) lower than in the southern basin. \u003cbr/\u003eThe monitoring can help to reveal dangerous sinkhole zones at the early stages of their development. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen a sinkhole is deemed dangerous, the crew can fill it with cement or initiate its collapse before it would happen naturally. \u003cbr/\u003eThey can also close the area to tourists and hikers. \"Our research is focusing on tracing the salt and the sweeter water under the ground,\" explains Ezersky under the striking sun on the Dead Sea's shore.\u003cbr/\u003eDr. Eppelbaum and Dr. Ezersky are hoping that in the future, special geophysical teams will be trained to constantly monitor the dangerous zones of the Dead Sea coastal plain. \u003cbr/\u003eUntil then, their sincere advice to visitors in this area is, watch your step. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Dead Sea is the lowest point on the surface of the earth. \u003cbr/\u003eIn the last 50 years the water level has dropped nearly 25 metres (approx 80 feet). 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