A veteran sailor with 10 years of sailing experience told me that sargasso marine animals are almost extinct, and have been a forbidden place for ships 100 years ago, and it is unknown how many ships have been swallowed, which is called a sea graveyard.
The most shocking thing is that once any ship steps into this place, it will lose the power to sail, can only be trapped in the same place, can not escape at all, and can not even supply food, it is simply nine deaths.
About the Sargasso Sea
The Sargasso Sea is located at 35 degrees north latitude, south of Bermuda, near the eastern United States. Because there are a large number of sargassons floating on the surface of the sea, it looks like a large grassland from a distance, so it is also known as the "sea of grasslands".
The Sargasso Sea is also the most transparent sea in the world, with a transparency of up to 72 meters, and from the surface of the sea, you can see the seabed dozens of stories high. It is said that the camera negative is placed at a depth of several hundred meters, and the negative film can still sense light. Interestingly, the sargasso Sea is 1.2 meters higher than the eastern U.S. sea, but the sea cannot flow out, which is very strange.
People often say that there is no fish in the water, but the Sargasso Sea has a special life of a fish, called sargasso, they feed on sargasson, the length is also very similar to the sargasso, and good at camouflage, it is difficult for ordinary people to find them.
However, since ancient times, the Sargasso Sea has been a frightening "Sea of Magic Algae", and under its calm and waveless appearance, there is actually an undercurrent, and almost all the ships that have mistakenly entered this place for hundreds of years have been trapped in it, and none of them have been spared.
It was not until the appearance of Columbus, the great navigator, that this spell was broken, but Columbus entered the edge of the Sargasso Sea, and there was plenty of food and fresh water, and the crew struggled for more than 30 days to escape from the sea. #人人能科普, there is new knowledge everywhere #
Basic information about the Sargasso Sea
Sargasso Sea, also known as saracea sea, in grape language is the meaning of grape fruit, its specific location is between 20 ° and 35 ° north latitude, 30 ° ~ 70 ° west longitude, covering the water area of the sea in about 3 million square kilometers.
The general tropical sea transparency of 50 meters is already very strong, but the transparency of the Sargasso Sea is 66 meters deep, and the individual sea areas can reach 72 meters, and from the sea level down, you can clearly see the scenery of tens of meters underwater, which is the most transparent sea in the world.
The Sargasso Sea surrounds the Muta Archipelago, which does not have any border with the mainland, it is a shoreless sea in the Atlantic Ocean, although its name has a sea, but strictly speaking, it is not a sea, it can only be said to be a special body of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
Most of the world's seas are the marginal parts of the ocean, all connected to the mainland or other lands, but the west of the Sargasso Sea is separated from the North American continent by a wide sea, and the other three sides are vast oceans, so it has no coast, so there is no clear sea division.
The no wind zone prevents the sailboat from navigating
The Sargasso Sea is surrounded by four ocean currents, the Gulf Stream in the southwest, the Warm Current in the West Ocean in the north, the Canary Cold Current in the east and the North Equatorial Warm Current in the south, so that the Sargasso Sea flows slowly in a clockwise direction, so it is very calm without wind and waves.
In the previous sailing era, ships relied on the help of wind and currents to advance, but the Sargasso Sea had no wind and no waves, making it difficult for incoming ships to move forward.
It was not until the invention of the steam engine that ships began to slowly enter the sea, and now the driving force ships, without ocean currents and winds, can still move forward quickly, which is the power of technology, unlocking the secrets of the previous Sargasso Sea.
The Sargasso Island Sea covers an area of 5 million to 6 million square kilometers, located in the North Atlantic Ocean, and is the center of the subtropical circulation area in the region.
To the west is the Gulf of Mexico Current, to the north is the North Atlantic Current, to the east is the Canary Current, and to the south is the North Equatorial Current.
It is precisely because of the interaction of these four oceans that the marginal currents of the Sargasso Sea flow slowly in a clockwise direction, forming an oval wall of water around the periphery, separating the Sargasso Sea from the outer ocean.
With this isolation, the interior of the Sargasso Sea is unusually calm, in a windless zone all year round, and the sea is also undisturbed and the currents are weak.
What is it that in the age of navigation, the Sargasso Sea is as frightening as Bermuda? Later, someone else gave it the name of a ship cemetery.
The main reasons:
(1) The special circulating climate here has caused the wind and waves here to be calm and calm all year round. Before the invention of the steam engine, ships traveled only on wind and manpower.
(2) If you are trapped here, it is difficult to sail out of this sea, and there is an oval circular ocean current alternating hot and cold on the periphery, and the boundless sargassum obstruction, entering and wanting to escape again, it is indeed more difficult.
(3) There are many rumors about the Sargasso Sea, and although most of these rumors are false, many ships have been shipwrecked here in the past.
In addition to the above aquatic grasses, circular ocean currents, and no wind, there are also some complex undercurrents and reefs in the surrounding waters, which will cause unimaginable accidents to the boat.
Why is the Sargasso Sea so clear?
One of them is because the wind on the sea here is very small. Here, almost all year round there is no strong wind, people living by the sea should know that there is wind and no wind on the purity of the sea water has a great impact, when the wind is strong, the waves roll over, it is easy to roll up various substances underground, so that the impurities in the sea water are too much, and the transparency is reduced. The sea here is very calm, so the suspended solids in the sea water basically sink to the bottom, making the upper sea water very pure and clear.
Another reason is that it is far from the mainland and has no influence from the water of the rivers on the continent. Where rivers enter the sea, they are often wrapped in a large amount of sediment and washed into the sea, which is one of the important reasons for the turbidity of the seawater, in addition, when connected to the mainland, the activities of humans and land animals will inevitably have a certain impact on the ocean through the water of the river. The Sargasso Sea, on the other hand, is far from the mainland, making it a pure land that is uninhabited and remains pure.
The waters of the Sargasso Sea are clear and transparent, and because of the lack of wind and small waves, objects float on it, and from some angles, they look like they are suspended in the air, giving people a sense of beauty in this tranquility.
