>The hole runs deep
South China Sea Blue Hole Could Be World's Deepest
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/south-china-sea-blue-hole-could-be-world-s-deepest/
Dragon Hole, or Longdong, is 987 feet
Dragon Hole is mentioned in the Ming dynasty novel "Journey to the West," in which a supernatural monkey character gets a magical cudgel from an undersea kingdom ruled by a dragon.