Efforts to retrieve man from Florida sinkhole are stopped [1]

Los Angeles Times - 3/02/13, Marisa Gerber

Police tape surrounds a home where a sinkhole opened beneath the bedroom of Jeff Bush in Seffner, Florida, on Friday, March 1. Sinkholes caused by acidic groundwater corroding the limestone or carbonate rock underground are common in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Florida officials said Saturday evening they hadn't found the body of the man swallowed by a sinkhole two days earlier, and planned to stop looking.

A somber-faced county administrator told reporters in Seffner, Fla., that the now-60-foot-deep sinkhole, which forced other families in the Tampa [2]-area neighborhood to evacuate, was simply too deep and too dangerous for efforts to continue.
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