Pitch Lake

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Pitch Lake, Trinidad

Two illustrated divers are superimposed onto a photograph showing a lake underwater.

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Pitch Lake: Media

asphalt deposit, Trinidad and Tobago

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Two illustrated divers are superimposed onto a photograph showing a lake underwater.

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Shipwrecks and mummies and toxic sludge, oh my!

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Pitch Lake, Trinidad

Pitch Lake, Trinidad

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