Dead sea, where nothing drowns

The Dead sea is the sea where everything floats.Density of the dead sea is 1.24 kg/litre, which makes swimming similar to floating. Dead sea lies in the border of Israel and Jordan and is the lowest place on Earth. This is a very popular tourist destination. In fact, tourists are very much interested to swim in it because it acts as a health treatment. Dead sea is basically known as salty lake, because it is full of salt. In Roman Era, visitors to Judea had begun to refer to the sea as the 'Dead Sea', as they were mostly struck with how the waters were devoid of all life-forms, whether plants or living creatures. There is no fear of sharks, and most of the tourists enjoy a mineral rich swim like mud treatments and salt baths which leads to many health benefits. It was one of the world's first health resorts, and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers and more. The Dead Sea is landlocked and in the lowest valley on earth. All the minerals of the surrounding countryside get washed into one pool, which in turn gets baked by the sun. This concentrates the salts so much so that the Dead Sea becomes times as salty as the ocean, which defines why people don't drown in the dead sea. The Dead Sea’s shores sit at the lowest elevation on land on the planet. The Dead Sea is not really a sea at all, but rather a salt lake, bordered by Jordan and Israel. It is the seventh saltiest body of water on Earth— the Don Juan Pond in Antarctica is the saltiest.

You’ve probably heard that floating in the ocean is significantly easier than floating in fresh water, just because the ocean is comprised of salt water. Let’s dive deeper into that fact and explain why it is easier to float in salt water than in fresh water. Density The Dead Sea’s salt concentration is 34%. This high concentration of salt makes the water very dense. Life cannot survive in that concentration of salt—hence the name. The human body, by comparison, is not as dense as the salt water. Therefore, humans float in the Dead Sea! This concept explains why floats sit on top of fresh water. Filled mostly with air, a water float is not dense enough to sink into fresh water. Our bodies become buoyant.

Why is the Dead Sea so salty? Many sources of freshwater feed into the world’s oceans. The fresh and saltwater mix and a salinity is reached. Salinity is the amount of salt minerals in the water. The Jordan River is the only freshwater that feeds into the Dead Sea. Because of the desert climate, the water evaporates very quickly. The very dense saltwater is what remains. Unfortunately, the Dead Sea is shrinking. Over the past few decades, the Dead Sea has been drying up, as have the freshwater aquifers along the shoreline. When these aquifers dry up, sinkholes develop. There are thousands of these holes along the shoreline of the Dead Sea. The Dead sea is 10 times more salty than the Mediterranean and three times more salty the Great Salt Lake in Utah, The more salt is dissolved in water, the denser it becomes. Objects which drop in water stop sinking when they displace a mass of water equal to their body mass. In dense, salty water, a little body displaces a lot of mass, and most of the body stays out of the water so, it's hard to drown a person when most of their body is floating on top of the water. In 2010, 21 people had to be pulled from the sea by lifeguards because it is facing massive evaporation. There are two more reasons why people are dying in the Dead Sea, becoming a dangerous place to be 1. People might poison themselves with salt. Massive doses of salt hurt the heart and kidneys and cause the body to shut down 2. The fact that you can't put your foot on the ground acts as a danger because when someone starts drowning with their head inside, the only way to save themselves is to put your feet on the ground and swimmers know how difficult it is.