The Black Sea, also known as the Black Sea, is an inland sea, connected to the great oceans through a few small canals. Located in a very special position, the Black Sea borders with 6 surrounding countries such as: Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia.
It is located between Southeast Europe and Asia with an area of 436,400km 2 and more than 2,000m deep.
There are many theories about the name of the Black Sea. Many people think that it got its name because the sea water here has a low salt concentration, creating conditions for microalgae to grow abundantly in the surface water layers, which makes the water color dark. called the Black Sea.
In fact, not many researchers agree with the above argument. They suggest that, in ancient times, different colors were chosen to indicate different directions : Black – North, Red – South, Yellow – East and West – White.
Location of the Black Sea.
The Black Sea is located in the North of the Mediterranean Sea (where the ancient people believed it to be in the middle of the Earth) , so it is called the Black Sea which means a sea in the North .
Besides, there are also many scholars who believe that, in the past, this was an extremely dangerous sea with extreme weather. Ships are often sunk by stormy seas because they cannot find a place to anchor and avoid storms; Because there were so many shipwrecks, the ancient people called this the black sea to warn the crew when coming here.
Black Sea. (Satellite image).
Today, we sometimes still discover some remnants from ancient shipwrecks such as masts, ropes… Around them are hundreds of scary legends about sailors who died. lost.
There is a special thing here is that the water layers of the Black Sea do not mix with each other . At depths of more than 200m, there is almost no life because of the large concentration of hydrogen sulphide , preventing the presence of oxygen in the deepest aquifers.
Pictures of shipwrecks.
They are almost intact against the onslaught of time.
This inadvertently makes the remnants of shipwrecks almost unaffected by time, ropes or wooden boards are intact, not rotting or rather, the decomposition process takes place very slowly. For that reason, the people around here believe that the deepest place of the Black Sea is the house of … the god of death.