A natural phenomenon 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 sea area is 7 million square meters. kilometers. The climate in terms of temperature is close to tropical, in 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 a little over 6 thousand meters. Moreover, the water temperature at depth differs from the average world ocean temperature by half; the Sargasso Sea is very warm.
Usually the seas have coasts, but Sargassov does not have them. The borders of its waters are considered to be the Atlantic currents, there are only four of them, the Gulf Stream in the west, the North Atlantic in the north, the Canary in the east, and Passatnoe in the south. All these currents are approximately equal in power, as a result of their circular circular interaction, an extensive anticyclone zone is created 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 quiet haven in which ships can hide from the weather and wait out the storm.
But in the Sargasso Sea it’s too calm, there is always complete calm and there is not a breeze. Swim into this calm, where the light of a burning candle does not move and the air is still, it’s dangerous, you can stay in the “dead” sea forever. A light breeze is very rare in the Sargasso Sea and it is so weak that it cannot fill the ship's sails. Therefore, in those distant days, when there were still no mechanical engines, and the ships were all completely sailing, falling 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 area of the Atlantic Ocean, at the bottom, that the brown algae of Sargasso grow, from which, in fact, the name of the sea - Sargassovo. These algae are strikingly different from all other algae.
Sargassa is not a ribbon algae, but a bushy one. It has a rhizome, branches, fruits and leaves, like an ordinary bush that grows on land. Life at the bottom of the ocean at Sargassa is short-lived, its bush separates from the rhizome and floats to the surface, decorating the Sargasso Sea. Nature has endowed the plant with the ability to reproduce in many air bubbles at the tips of branches, and they also help algae to emerge and stay confidently on the water.
The indefatigable currents collect bushes in the middle of the sea, and there the algae spread like a continuous carpet, frightening sailors and marine animals with their unusual appearance. Although the Sargassa does not pose any danger to ships - although they are reluctant, they diverge under the bowsprit of a moving ship, closing again behind the stern. Sargassos do not carry organic life in themselves; algae are already dead after they have risen to the surface. Their mass is used by small crustaceans for the construction of their simple houses. Shellfish also adapt to harsh conditions. There is still life in the deadly Sargasso Sea, and it continues.
