640-meter underwater cave, Japan's largest, found in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - An Okinawa diver says he has found a mammoth underwater stalactite cave, believed to be the biggest discovered so far in Japan, near the Manzamo resort in Onna, Okinawa Prefecture. The cave consists of a labyrinth of passageways about 640 meters in length, 150 meters longer than another Okinawa underwater cave, the 490-meter-long Hidenchigama cave off Kume Island. Photo was provided by Marine Dome, a diving shop run by he diver, Toshiaki Hirobe. (Kyodo)

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