About the Red Sea... - Egypt - Hurghada

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About the Red Sea...

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Arabic name of the Red Sea is "Al Bahr al Ahmar". There is no short explanation why it's called "red". Probably it's from planktonic algae (Trichodesmium Erythraeum) which been found in that sea. When those algae are dying, the blue color of the water is changing into red-brown.

The Red Sea has 2250 km (from Suez Canal to Yemen in the South)

It's the warmest sea in the world from 19C in the winter up to 32C in the summer time.

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Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org)

Occupying a part of the Great Rift Valley, the Red Sea has a surface area of roughly 174,000 square miles (450,000 km²): being roughly 1,200 miles (1,900 km) long and, at its widest point, over 190 miles (300 km) wide. It has a maximum depth of 8,200 feet (2,500 m) in the central median trench and an average depth of 1,640 feet (500 m), but there are also extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species and 200 soft and hard corals and is the world's most northern tropical sea.

The Red Sea is regarded as one of the most saline water bodies in the world that is governed by the effects of the water circulation pattern, resulting from evaporation and wind stress in the Red Sea. Salinity ranges between 36 and 38 ‰.