Especial. The secret of the coral reefs in the Red Sea #InTheRed

The Red Sea is a bay of the Indian Ocean. It is situated in narrow gorge of the earths crust, formed millions of years ago between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa. Its area of ââalmost 500 square kilometers, with more than two-thirds of the sea is located in the tropical belt. The average water depth from 500 m to 1 km. But in the middle of the sea is a crack dissecting it into two parts. Depth there from 2.5 to 3 km. It is only one sea of the world has no river flows. Suez Canal in the northern part of the sea - the handiwork of man, he rather narrow, so the natural circulation of water occurs only in the southern part of the sea. At Red sea there are nearly 200 species of coral, which paint the bottom of the sea in different colors. They absorb calcium from the water, and then one polyp clings to another - and it turns out the skeleton of the coral. Here you can see a light-yellow and orange corals, red corals, purple corals (the list is endless). In form they are also quite varied: spherical corals, flat corals or bushy corals. But this diversity creates only living coral. Died corals, they lose their color and volume, and they leave only white skeletons. Corals grow very slowly - a little more than 1 cm per year. Its amazing how much it took years to grow so huge coral reefs! JOIN VSP GROUP PARTNER PROGRAM: http://ift.tt/1RWlAT7 #InTheRed

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