It was a funny bath. We could not sink, one could lie comfortably on his back, one could sit with his knees drawn up to his chin written by the famous American humorist Mark Twain in one of his books when he visited the Dead Sea and experienced the unusual sensations when he and his companions bathed in it. There is such a sea in a country with a very ancient history. This is of course, is the famous Dead Sea in Palestine. Its water is so salty that nothing can live in it. Due to the local scorching rainless climate, the surface water evaporates making the water still saltier. That is why the Dead Sea has a salt content of 27 percent and even more. The salt content increases with depth of the sea.

The curious property exhibited by the Dead Sea is that, you will never sink in it because your body is much lighter. According to the Law of buoyancy we would never drown in a Dead Sea because we weigh less than an equal volume of very salty water. We tend to pop up to the surface of the water just like an ordinary egg in salt water, which incidentally sinks in fresh water.