| It's called the Dead Sea because nothing lives in it. It | | | | products can be sean here: Dead Sea Bath Slats |
| is some of the saltiest water anywhere in the world, | | | | There's no seaweed or plants of any kind in or |
| almost six times as salty as the ocean! The Dead | | | | around the water. There are no fish or any kind of |
| Sea is completely landlocked and it gets saltier with | | | | swimming, squirming creatures living in or near the |
| increasing depth. The surface, fed by the River | | | | water. As a matter of fact, what you'll see on the |
| Jordan, is the least saline. Down to about 130 feet | | | | shores of the Sea is white, crystals of salt covering |
| (40 meters), the seawater comprises about 300 | | | | everything. And this is no ordinary table salt, either. |
| grams of salt per kilogram of seawater. That's about | | | | The salts found in the Dead Sea are mineral salts, |
| ten times the salinity of the oceans. Below 400 feet, | | | | just like you find in the oceans of the world, only in |
| though, the sea has 332 grams of salt per kilogram | | | | extreme concentrations. The water in the Dead Sea |
| of seawater and is saturated. Salt precipitates out | | | | is deadly to living things. |
| and piles up on the bottom of the sea. Some of salt | | | | |
