For those that did not know... The name 'Dead Sea' is actually a nicer translation from the Hebrew name 'Yam ha Maved', which means, 'Killer Sea'. The surface of the Dead Sea is over 1,300 feet below sea level. The very bottom of the sea, in the deepest part, is over 2,300 feet below sea level. The Dead Sea has some of the most saline water on earth; as much as 35% of the water is dissolved salts! That's almost six times as salty as the ocean! The Dead Sea is completely landlocked and it gets saltier with increasing depth. The surface, fed by the River Jordan, is the least saline. This means humans can float in the water without really trying...just look at Larry here...
and Jed too!
While the Dead Sea is supposed to have "medicinal healing abilities"...aside from stinging the eyes and mouth, all it let's you do is float. Before drying off after coming out of the water... you must shower (and it's cold) to remove most of the salt...
After the shower... we went up to the hot springs to bathe... like a huge hot tub with the water from the dead sea...heated to I don't know how many degrees... but it was hot! more to come....
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