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The Red Sea looks like the forked tongue of a serpent, cutting up between Saudi Arabia and Africa, to finally split around the Sinai Peninsula as it forms the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez. At its north end, the heavily trafficked Suez Canal makes the Red Sea one of the busiest waterways in the world. |
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| Surrounding the Red Sea are rocky peaks and solitary desert, much of it harsh, a nearly lifeless moonscape that punishes with 100-degree days and uncomfortably cold nights. Its name | ||||
is derived from the color change of the water, which turns red when a prevalent from of algae dies; normally it is blue green. On the Red Sea there are few harbors, few people and even fewer reasons to visit .... unless you want to dive, then you've arrived at one of the world's premier underwater locations.
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Red Sea is quite simply a diver's paradise. Teeming with life and
beauty, its phosphorescent shades of reds and green appear in stark
contrast to the monotone desert. Adding to the surrounding colors
are red coral refs, green seaweed and sienna hills whose sand is
blown onto the surface by the hot desert winds and left to settle
in long red streaks. |
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