Dead Sea - the navel of the earth

Dead Sea lie between Israel border, Palestine where there is geographic location is inland undermost,. Dead Sea hass 400 m2 mediterranean possession acreage lesser acreage. It was called "the navel of the earth."

Length of the Dead Sea towards the north - south is 80 km, 5-16 km wide, has an area of 1049 km2, average depth of 301 km. From the geological structure, the Dead Sea is located in the cracks of the continent of Africa (Eastern Africa), long reach to the north, also known as the "conduit" of the Dead Sea. 70 million years ago, water from the cracks and become lakes. 250 years ago, the Dead Sea is much wider than today. At that time, the length of the north - south is 300 km, almost 4-5 times higher than today . Due to the location of the Dead Sea is located in the desert, hot, dry, average annual rainfall is 50-60 mm, but the water evaporates back more than 1,000 mm, the area of its increasingly narrow . He even predicted that the XXI century, the Dead Sea will disappear from the world map.

Dead Sea is actually an inland lake, the water can only flow into the drain that can not be. Water supply is based mainly on rivers flowing from north Jordan. Each year, water flow from the Jordan River flows into the lake average 5 billion m3, accounting for 2 / 3 the total amount of water flowing into the "lake". Annual rainfall in this region is not stable, the water should be supplemented erratic water levels in the "Ho" is not stable, ranging 60-70 cm .In recent years, the Jordan River's water is used so much on irrigation water in the lake dropping, the area was narrow. The Dead Sea is a lake, but due to large area, countries should be called blue sea .According to data exploration in the Dead Sea salt has about 110 billion tons, enough for 40 billion users in 2000 year. This is natural salt warehouse extremely large. Due to the high salt content in water should be out some bacteria, the organisms do not survive in the Dead Sea. Fish downstream river flows into the Dead Sea has also been "salted" died here. Both an area several hundred meters along the coast has not made any trees, birds are not sharp to the array .

Due to high levels of salt in the sea, the thrust of the great. What if people do not stumble fell drowning. Whereby a group of prisoners had escaped. Century I, a marshal's staff leads a cluster of Roman prisoners to the Dead Sea to execution. Roman soldiers throwing prisoners into the sea carrying chains. But they still floating on the water floating. There are people with waves ashore. Roman soldiers terrified before the strange phenomenon that crowd and that prisoners should be god bless all ordered released. Cloud prisoners escaped but did not understand it because what reason. A few years later we discovered this wonderful thing .

But in the Dead Sea no living creature that was but here is the famous tourist destination. Tourists come here to be comfortable playing pool. The interesting thing is whether or not swim, when to place, as well as a time you're floating on the sea waves. But tourists can not swim in this race because of the large thrust. Water at fans, hard riding in the limbs was difficult to swim forward. Most travelers to the body is floating to the surface and see books. Now back to shore, the sun, sparkling full body salt and stick it together on the skin.