World's Deadliest Water Bodies

Situated in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park - Dominica's World Heritage site, Boiling Lake is the second largest hot spring in the world. It is 200 ft across and its present depth is unknown. The sides of the lake are a mixture of clay, pumice and small stones.

Along its edges the water temperature is a sweltering 180 to 197 degrees Fahrenheit, and its center is too hot to get close enough to measure. The lake is almost continuously veiled in clouds of vapor, and the greyish water is always bubbling.

Strangely, the temperature of the water in this lake can’t be controlled because it’s the result of a crack in the lake bed through which molten lava escapes.

Mono Lake:

Once regarded as one of the world’s most exceptional and prolific ecosystems, Mono Lake, located in Mono County, California, is an ancient saline lake. The lake had no fish, but trillions of brine shrimp and alkali flies thrived in its unique waters. Until 1941, this strikingly beautiful lake was healthy and strong. But then Los Angeles, which was just beginning a giant growth spurt, drained the Mono Basin streams to keep its businesses and growing citizenry hydrated.

This scandalous mishandling of natural resources went on for almost 50 years and when it was halted in 1990, Mono Lake had lost half its volume, its salinity had doubled, and became a toxic alkaline lake teeming with carbonates, chlorides and sulfates. A committee was formed to compel Los Angeles to right its wrong but the restoration project will take decades to complete.

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