The Dead Sea is 997 feet deep. It is one of the saltiest bodies of water. The Dead Sea is 9.6 times as salty as the ocean. The Dead Sea is a harsh environment one of the reasons that no creature lives there. The Dead Sea is 31 miles long and 9 miles wide. The Dead Sea has attracted people for a thousand years, and it is one of the world’s first health resorts. The dead seas seawater has a density of 1240 kglm 3 which causes swimming similar to floating. The rainfall over there varies, they only get 4 inches in the north part of the Dead Sea and in the south 2 inches. All year round the climate is sunny and dry. During the summer 90 degrees to 102 degrees and the winter 68 degrees to 73 degrees. Given the heavier atmosphere pressure, the air has slightly high oxygen content (3.3 percent in summer to 4.8 percent) in winter as compared to oxygen density at sea level. Ever since the water flow of the Jordan River was dammed up the Dead Sea loses one meter of water each year. Jordan River is now mostly pushing sewage into the Dead Sea. The government is talking about putting a pipe line from Dead Sea to read sea to replenish in the Dead Sea, but people think the government should clean up the Jordan River. The Dead Sea also known as Salt Sea, is the earth’s lowest elevation on land. The Dead Sea is the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With 34.2% salinity in 2011 it is also one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water.