Dead Sea
Water
A lake so salty that you float without trying.
The Dead Sea is not a sea but a lake, between Jordan, Israel and the West Bank. Its shore lies about 430 metres below sea level: the lowest dry land on Earth.
The water is almost ten times as salty as the ocean. That makes it so heavy that you float on it like a cork. No fish can live in it, which is how it got its name.
- below sea level
- 430 m
- saltier than the ocean
- 10×
- it drops every year
- 1 m
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You cannot sink, but swimming is hard too: your legs keep popping up.
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The lake is shrinking, because the water of the river that feeds it is used on the way.
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People have been coming for the salt and the mud since ancient times.
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