The controversy over which sea is the saltiest is spreading around two neighboring bodies of water - the Dead and Red Seas. However, if we take the chemical analysis of water, then the salinity of the former is eight times higher than the latter.
Everyone has heard about the healing properties of the Dead Sea. These qualities are primarily due to the properties of water. That is why, when addressing the question of which sea is the saltiest on the planet, the Dead Sea comes first in the list of names.
It is located in a depression near two ancient states - Israel and Jordan. The concentration of salt in it reaches three hundred and forty grams of substance per one liter of water, while the salinity reaches 33.7%, which is 8.6 times more than in the entire world ocean. It is the presence of such a concentration of salt that makes the water in this place so dense that it is simply impossible to drown in the sea.
Sea or lake?
The Dead Sea is also called a lake, since it has no outlet to the ocean. The reservoir feeds only the Jordan River, as well as several drying up streams.
Due to the high concentration of salt in this lake, there are no marine organisms - fish and plants, but different types of bacteria and fungi live in it.
Oomycetes are a group of mycelial organisms.
In addition, about seventy species of oomycetes were found here, capable of transferring water salinity to the maximum. More than thirty types of minerals are distributed in this sea, which include potassium, sulfur, magnesium, iodine and bromine. Such a harmony of chemical elements splashes out into very interesting formations of salt, which, unfortunately, are not durable.
Red sea
Continuing this theme, it should be noted that the first position, together with the Dead Sea, is shared by the Red Sea, which also has a high salt content in the water.
It is widely believed that the waters of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea do not mix at the junction, and also strikingly differ in color.
It is located between Asia and Africa in a tectonic depression, where the depth reaches three hundred meters. Rains in this region are extremely rare, only about one hundred millimeters per year, but evaporation from the sea surface is already two thousand millimeters. This imbalance is the cause of increased salt formation. So, the salt concentration per one liter of water is as much as forty-one grams.
It should be noted that the concentration of salts in this place is constantly growing, since not a single body of water flows into the sea, and the lack of water mass is compensated by the Gulf of Aden.
The uniqueness of these two seas has been known since ancient times and these territories are still very popular among the inhabitants of the planet. After all, the water in these lakes is curative.
