The phenomenal phenomenon of nature in the Atlantic Ocean is the Sargasso Sea. The coordinates of this most interesting and dangerous water area of the Atlantic are 22-36 degrees north latitude and 32-64 degrees west longitude. The area of the sea is 7 million square meters. Kilometers. The climate is close to the tropical temperature, the summer on the surface of the water about 30 degrees of heat, and in winter, plus 23 degrees. The depth of the Sargasso Sea is just over 6 thousand meters. And the water temperature at depth differs from the average temperature of the world ocean by half, the Sargasso Sea is very warm.
Usually the seas have shores, however Sargassov does not have them. Borders of its water area are the Atlantic currents, there are only four of them, the Gulf Stream in the west, the north - the North Atlantic, in the east - the Canary, and the Trade Winds in the south. All these currents are roughly equal in power, as a result of their circular closed interaction creates a vast area of the anticyclone, in which there are never storms, this zone is the Sargasso Sea. It would seem that there is nothing wrong with the fact that the Atlantic Ocean in some part has become a kind of a quiet haven in which ships can escape from the weather and wait out the storm.
But in the Sargasso Sea it is too calm, there is always a calm and there is not a breeze. To swim in this calm, where a spark of a burning candle does not move and the air is motionless, it is dangerous, you can remain in the "dead" sea forever. A light breeze happens very rarely in the Sargasso Sea and it is so weak that it can not fill the sails of the ship. Therefore, in those distant times, when there were no mechanical engines yet, and the ships were all completely sailing, getting into the boundless Sargasso Sea, caravels, corvettes, frigates, brigantines became helpless and died after several months of waiting for a fair wind.
The Gulf Stream and other currents not only created the wide Sargasso Sea, but also tried to make it decorative. It is in this region of the Atlantic Ocean that the brown algae of the sargassa grow on the bottom, from which the name of the sea, Sargasso, actually originated. These algae are strikingly different from all other algae.
Sargassa is not a banded seaweed, but a bush. It has a rhizome, branches, fruits and leaves, like a common bush that grows on land. Life at the bottom of the ocean near the sargassa is short, its bush is separated from the rhizome and floats to the surface, decorating the Sargasso Sea. Nature endowed the plant with the ability to reproduce in a variety of air bubbles on the tips of the branches, they help the algae to float up and steadily stay on the water.
Indefatigable currents gather bushes in the middle of the sea, and there the seaweed is covered with a solid carpet, frightening sailors and sea animals with its unusual appearance. Although there is no danger to the ships for the ships - they are reluctant, though reluctantly, to disperse under the bowsprit of the moving ship, again closing behind the stern. Organic life does not carry sargassos, seaweed is already dead, after it has risen to the surface. Their mass is used by small crustaceans for the construction of their simple houses. Molluscs also adapt to harsh conditions. Life in the deadly Sargasso Sea still exists, and it continues.