I had a chance to ride to the seas in my life. Indeed, everyone is different! Somewhere you can safely swim and even dive - and even your eyes practically do not sting. And somewhere you can’t even plunge headlong, otherwise the salt will turn your hair into straw, and your eyes will be red until the next day. But what is the reason for this difference in salinity between different seas?
What determines the salinity of sea water
For a while, I thought it was just self-deception. Indeed, why should there be any differences between the seas!
But long hours on the Internet and reading books told me: the salinity of the water is really different for each sea. And it depends on the following things:
The ratio of all these parameters determines how salty the sea will be.
Which sea is the most salty and why
The most- The Dead Sea is the saltiest- where for every liter of water there are about 200 grams of salt.
Such a high concentration of salts leads to its consequences. Simply in the sea living organisms cannot live- do not withstand the salinity of water. That is why the sea got its name.
The reasons for this accumulation of salt are commonplace. Here only one river flows- Jordan. And no river flows from the Dead Sea. Also close to the Dead Sea very hot.
It turns out that salt simply has nowhere to go from the sea. Water evaporates, salt does not disappear - and a concentrated salt solution is obtained.
But there is another plus - because of such salinity It is almost impossible to drown in the Dead Sea. The water itself will push you to the surface.