Worlds Biggest Dams | Longest Dam In The Worls

Here is the Biggest Dams from embankment dams to arch dams to gravity dams. Here’s a lowdown on the tallest dams in the world.

The Karun-4 Dam is an arch dam on the Karun River in the province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran. The dam is a concrete double curvature arch-type and 230 metres (750 ft) high from the foundation] The arch dam design is an ideal one for a dam built in a narrow, rocky gorge to hold back water in a reservoir.

Worlds Biggest Holes In The Earth | Amazing Holes | Largest Hole

Here are the photos of the world's biggest and Amazing holes on the Earth. Looking at photos like these are scares and fascinates me in equal doses. The sheer scale of these holes reminds you of just how tiny you are.

Glory Hole - Monticello Dam

A glory hole is used when a dam is at full capacity and water needs to be drained from the resevoir. This is the glory hole belonging to monticello dam in california and it is the largest in the world. This hole can be seen at the top left of the photo above. If you were to jump in for some reason your slightly damp body would shoot out near the bottom of the dam.

Kimberley Big Hole - South Africa

Apparently the largest ever hand-dug excavation in the world. This 1097 metre deep mine yielded over 3 tonnes of diamonds before being closed in 1914. The amount of earth removed by workers is estimated to total 22.5 million tonnes.

Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah

This is supposedly the largest man-made excavation on earth. Extraction began in 1863 and still continues today, the pit increasing in size constantly. In its current state the hole is 3/4 mile deep and 2.5 miles wide.

Great Blue Hole, Belize

Situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize is this incredible geographical phenomenon known as a blue hole. There are numerous blue holes around the world but none as stunning as this one. At surface level the near perfectly circular hole is 1/4 mile wide, the depth in the middle reaching 145 metres. obviously the hole is a huge hit with divers.

Baby Boy Saved By Worlds Smallest Artificial Heart

Italian doctor Antonio Amodeo saved the life of a 16 month old baby boy by implanting the world's smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a transplant.

 

Italian heart surgeon Antonio Amodeo holds a tiny titanium pump, the world's smallest artificial heart, which was implanted in a baby, at the Bambino Gesu' Hospital in Rome May 24, 2012. Doctors from Rome's Bambino Gesu' Hospital saved the life of the 16 month old baby in March with the artificial heart, which weighs only 11 grams, before the infant received an organ donation. The baby, whose identity has not been disclosed, was kept alive for 13 days before the transplant and is now doing well.The baby was suffering from dilated myocardiopathy, a heart muscle disease which normally causes stretched or enlarged fibers of the heart.

Source: Reuters.com

Tallest Man In The World

According to the Guiness Book of World Records the tallest man ever was Robert Wadlow measuring in at an incredible 8 ft 11 in. The record holder for tallest living man is Sultan Kosen from Turkey. He measures 8 ft 1 in.

But in history there were many of tallest men mad record for being tallest man in world at their time. Here i presenting you some of them photos.

Sultan Kosen - Tallest Man In The World

Turkish farm labourer Sultan Kosen is the presently Worlds tallest man from 2009, approved by Guinness World Records. He born on 10th December, 1982 in Mardin, Turkey and holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living male in the world at 2.51 meter (8 ft 3 inches).

The world's tallest man Sultan Kosen have finally stopped growing at a towering 8ft 3inch due to a pioneering new treatment. He suffers from the rare disorder acromegaly which causes his body to continually produce the growth hormone.

Sultan Kosen's condition was thought to have been caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland which is located in bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain. Doctors though they had cured him in 2008 when they removed the tumor but he continued to grow at a rate of half and inch a year. But researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center, who have developed a new treatment after he visited in 2010, say he has finally stopped growing.

Sultan Kosen who wears size 28 shoes, is one of only ten people ever to top 8ft and the first in a decade. When other children were little more than 4ft, he was already well over 6ft. 'The kids used to tease me and I found that very difficult,' he said on a trip to the UK in 2010.