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underwater caves are formed when over a period of time, tides smashes the rocks and erodes it. gradually, it forms an underwater cave.

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It's true that sea-caves, as the answer states, are formed by erosion by wave-action, and they can hold deep water, but I suspect the questioner is asking about true underwater caves. If so:

Undersea cavessuch as the Blue Holes are normal terrestrial karst caves formed in low-lying limestone at a time of depressed sea-levels (the glaciations), then drowned as sea-level rose when the ice-cover retreated.

Water-filledcaves on land areagain simply normal limestone caves, but the passages have formed vertically-sinuous profiles that trap water in "sumps",rather like the U-bend under the kitchen sink.

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