Dead Sea Beach 01a, "Neve Midbar Beach" - Judaean Desert

Category: Resorts

Tags: Dead sea, sea, salt, judaean desert, judaean, desert, swim, swimmer, sun, summer, mud

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. Near the bottom of the Dead Sea the salt concentrations are so saturated that salt crystals precipitate out of the wat