phenomenal natural phenomenon in the Atlantic Ocean - the Sargasso Sea.The coordinates of the most interesting and dangerous waters of the Atlantic make up 22-36 degrees north latitude and 32-64 degrees west longitude.The area of the sea is 7 million square feet.kilometers.The climate on the temperature readings close to the tropical summer in the water about 30 degrees and plus 23 degrees in the winter.The depth of the Sargasso Sea just over 6000 meters.Moreover, the water temperature at a depth different from the average temperature of the global ocean twice the Sargasso Sea is very warm.
usually have a sea shore, but they are not from the Sargasso.The boundaries of its waters are considered to Atlantic currents, there are only four, the Gulf Stream to the west, in the north - the North Atlantic, in the east - Canary and trade wind in the south.All these currents are roughly equal in power, as a result of their interaction created a closed circular vast area of the anticyclone, which never storms, this zone is the Sargasso Sea.It would seem that there is nothing wrong in the fact that the Atlantic in some of its parts has become a kind of safe haven where ships can shelter from bad weather and ride out the storm.
But in the Sargasso Sea is too easy, there is always a dead calm and there is no wind.Swim in this calm, where the flame of a burning candle does not move and the air is stationary, it is dangerous, and can stay in the "dead" sea forever.A light breeze happens in the Sargasso Sea is very rare and it is so weak that the sails of the ship can not fill.Therefore, in those days, when there was no mechanical motors, and all ships were sailing completely drawn, entering the vast Sargasso Sea, caravel, corvettes, frigates, brigantines become helpless and died after a few months of waiting for a favorable wind.
Gulf Stream and other currents have not only created a wide Sargasso Sea, but also tried to make it decorative.It is in this area of the Atlantic Ocean, at the bottom of brown algae Sargassum grow, from which, in fact, was the name of the sea - the Sargasso.These algae are very different from all the other algae.
Sargassum - no tape algae and bushy.She has a rhizome, twigs, fruit and leaves as a conventional bush that grows on land.Life on the ocean floor at the Sargasso brief, it separated from the bush roots and floats to the surface, decorating the Sargasso Sea.Nature gave the plant the ability to play in a variety of air bubbles on the tips of branches, they and helps algae float and confidently hold onto water.
Tireless flow collect the bushes in the middle of the sea, and there is a continuous carpet of algae stele, frightening sailors and marine animals their unusual appearance.Although no danger of Sargassum for ships are not - they reluctantly, but diverge at the bowsprit of the ship moving again bound up astern.Sargasso organic life in itself does not carry the algae is already dead after rose to the surface.Their mass is used small crustaceans for their uncomplicated device houses.Shellfish also adapt to the harsh conditions.Life in the deadly Sargasso Sea is still there, and it continues.
