Was it always called that way?
No not always.
It has changed several names throughout history. The ancients called it Pont Euxine - “hospitable sea”. The Russians who came to its shores called the sea Pontic, or Russian.
And throughout history it was called Temarun, Cimmerian, Akhshaena, Scythian, Blue, Tauride, Ocean, Inhospitable, Surozh, Holy.
The modern name of the sea is explained by several hypotheses. Historical hypothesis suggests that the name “Black Sea” was given to it by the Turks and other conquerors who came to its shores to conquer the local population.
They met such fierce resistance from the Circassians, Shapsugs, and Adygs that even the sea was nicknamed Karaden-giz - Black, inhospitable.
From the point of view of sailors, the sea is called “Black” because there are very strong storms, during which the water in the sea darkens.
It must be said that strong storms are very rare on the Black Sea. Strong waves (more than 6 points) occur here no more than 17 days a year.
As for the change in water color, this phenomenon is typical for any sea, not only the Black Sea. There are also suggestions that the sea could be called the Black Sea because, after a storm, black silt often remains on its shores. Indeed, during a storm, the sea throws silt ashore, but it is gray rather than black.
The third hypothesis, which hydrologists adhere to, is based on the fact that metal objects lowered to great depths rise to the surface blackened. Moreover, this happens with almost any metal. Even with gold. The reason for this effect is hydrogen sulfide, which is saturated in the Black Sea water at a certain depth.
How did the Black Sea arise? How did seas and oceans appear on Earth? Why is the water in rivers fresh and the water in seas salty? Where did the water on the planet come from?
The lives of oceanographers, geologists, paleontologists, and chemists are devoted to answering these simple questions. Nobody knows the exact answers. Man lives on the planet for only a short time, so we can only guess.
It is possible that the history of the Black Sea looked like this. Tens of millions of years ago, in the area of the modern seas of the Mediterranean, Marmara, Black, Azov, Caspian and Aral Sea, the bay of the ancient huge Tethys Sea stretched. So this sea is called by the name of the goddess of the sea, the daughter of Neptune Thetis (Tethis).
The bay consisted of two parts: the western - the modern Mediterranean Sea and the eastern - the rest. The western part was salty, and the eastern part was desalinated, since many rivers flowed into it.
About 13 million years ago, during the formation of the Alpine Mountains, the connection between the two parts of the Tethys Sea was interrupted.
In place of the eastern part of the bay, the desalinated Sarmatian Sea arose.
Later 3 million years of evolutionary changes, its water area has decreased significantly, and salinity has increased. Each change in salinity was naturally accompanied by a mass extinction of the inhabitants of this reservoir.
8 million years ago the Pontic Sea was formed. It included the modern Black and Caspian seas.
The modern peaks of the Caucasus mountains were then its islands. The Pontic Sea was practically fresh. More fresh than the modern Caspian.
The land continued to rise and a million years ago separated the Black and Caspian seas forever. The Caspian Sea remains desalinated.
Then the Black Sea connected with the Mediterranean several times. Each such unification made the Black Sea more and more salty.
Last connection occurred 8 thousands of years ago and was catastrophic. A powerful earthquake split the land. The modern Bosphorus Strait emerged.
Huge masses of salty Mediterranean water rushed into the Black Sea basin, causing the death of a huge number of freshwater inhabitants.
So many of them died that the decomposition of the remains of their organisms in the depths of the sea, deprived of oxygen, created that initial supply of hydrogen sulfide, which continues to exist to this day. The Black Sea became the “Sea of Dead Depths.”
Historians believe that this entire cataclysm took place before the eyes of the people who lived here. Are these events the global flood? After all, as you know, Noah moored his ark to the Caucasian Mount Ararat, which then could well have looked like an island in the raging stream of the confluence of two seas.
Now nature has taken a time out.
There is only a very slow rise of the mountains surrounding the sea - a few centimeters per century. The mountains are growing, but the sea is also advancing. Moreover, it comes faster than the mountains rise - 20-25 centimeters per century. It might not seem like much, but the ancient cities of Taman have already disappeared to the bottom of the sea.
In addition to salt, seawater also contains dissolved gases: oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and hydrogen sulfide. The source of hydrogen sulfide is the decomposition of the remains of aquatic organisms. Hydrogen sulfide in the Black Sea is of biochemical origin. Scientists have shown that special bacteria living in large numbers in the depths of the sea, living in an oxygen-free environment, decompose the corpses of animals and plants. As a result of their activity, hydrogen sulfide is released. In the Black Sea, the water does not mix well. Therefore, hydrogen sulfide accumulates at the bottom. Almost starting from a depth of 150 - 200 meters, only hydrogen sulfide bacteria live in the sea. There is no other life. Over millions of years, bacteria have accumulated more than a billion tons of hydrogen sulfide in the sea. Hydrogen sulfide is a poisonous gas and can burn and explode.
What color is the Black Sea? Blue? Blue? Green? We can safely say that the Black Sea is not “the bluest in the world.” The color of the water in the Red Sea is much bluer than in the Black Sea, and the bluest is the Sargasso Sea. What determines the color of sea water? Some people think it depends on the color of the sky. This is not entirely true. The color of water depends on how seawater and its impurities scatter sunlight. The more impurities, sand and other suspended particles in the water, the greener the water. The saltier and purer the water, the bluer it is. Many large rivers flow into the Black Sea, which desalinate the water and carry with them many different suspended solids, so the water in it is rather greenish-blue, and near the coast it is rather green.
Who lives in the sea? The Black Sea is one of the most sparsely inhabited seas on earth. There are only thirty-seven kilograms of biological mass per cubic kilometer of Black Sea water. This happens because life in the Black Sea is concentrated only in a narrow coastal strip in the area of shallow depths. There is no life below two hundred meters.
But despite the comparative poverty of marine flora and fauna, there are more than 250 species of algae alone in the Black Sea. There are algae that live near the shore - coraline, cystoseira, sea lettuce, laurencia, there are those that need depth - phyllophora, or sea grapes, and there are those that simply float in the water, for example peridenea. Interestingly, it is she who creates the autumn glow of the sea. Along with the peridenea, luminous tiny predators, noctilucas, or nocturnals, also live in the water. If you filter them from water and dry them, they will still glow with cold light. The glow is caused by a substance that scientists call “luciferin”, in honor of the lord of hell, Lucifer.
At night, some species of jellyfish and ctenophores also glow. Most often in the sea there are jellyfish with the names Aurelia and Cornerot. Cornerot is the largest Black Sea jellyfish, and Aurelia is the smallest. If aurelia is rarely more than 30 cm in diameter, then the size of the dome of the cornerot can reach half a meter. Aurelia is not poisonous, but cornet can cause a burn similar to a nettle burn. The burn may cause a slight burning sensation, redness, and sometimes blistering. In order not to experience the effect of the poison of this beautiful jellyfish with a slightly purple dome, when meeting it, it is enough to move it away from you with your hand, grasping the upper part of the dome, which has no tentacles.
Although there are vacationers who deliberately seek encounters with stinging jellyfish. They believe in the healing power of the cornet's poison. It is believed that if you rub a person’s body with jellyfish, you can be cured of radiculitis. It's a delusion. Such therapy does not bring relief, but causes suffering to both the jellyfish and the patient.
The most common shellfish in the Black Sea are, of course, mussels, brine, oysters and scallops. All of them are edible. Oysters and mussels are specially bred. Oysters live up to 30 years. They are very tenacious: they can survive without the sea for more than two weeks. Maybe that's why they are eaten alive. Oysters on the Black Sea coast of Kuban are relatively rare. However, all the coastal stones and port piers are covered with mussels. Mussels live for 7 - 10 years and do not taste as refined as oysters. They need to be boiled or fried before eating. Sometimes you can find a small pearl in a large mussel.; It is usually pink in color and irregular in shape. Mussels are real living filters. They pass through themselves a huge amount of sea water. At the same time, everything that was contained in this water accumulates in their bodies. Therefore, it is not recommended to feast on mussels caught in the port or near sewage treatment plant effluents.
Scallops are also interesting in their own way. This mollusk can move like a missile. With force, the scallop slams the doors of its shell, and the stream of water carries it a meter or two forward. Scallops have many eyes. There are about a hundred of them. Why he needs them is unclear. This mollusk is blind. If an eye is removed, a new one will grow in its place.
The rapana mollusk arrived from the Far East along with ships to the Black Sea. Now it has filled the entire coast of the Caucasus. Rapana is edible. You can make a delicious soup from it, and its meat resembles sturgeon. Rapana is a predator, and the objects of its hunt are mussels and oysters. Young rapana drill into the shell of the victim and drink the contents, and adult individuals secrete mucus, which paralyzes the valves of the mollusk and allows the rapana to eat the host. It is believed that rapana is the closest relative of those same extinct mollusks from whose shells the ancient Phoenicians obtained their famous purple dye. The discovery of purple is attributed to the Phoenician god Melqart. One day he and his beloved dog were walking along the seashore. The dog was rummaging in the coastal algae. Suddenly Melkart noticed that a trickle of blood was flowing from the dog’s mouth. He called his pet and tried to wipe away the blood. It turned out that there was no wound. The dog just chewed the shell, from which purple-bloody paint leaked out. Melkart passed on the secret of mining to the Phoenicians, who, during the existence of their people, were able to completely process all relatives of rapana into paint.
Crabs are also found in the Black Sea. “Spider”, marbled, stone, grassy, xantho, redbark. There are 18 species in total. Here they do not reach large sizes. The largest is the red-barked one. But even it rarely reaches a size of more than 20 cm in diameter.
There are approximately 180 species of fish that live in the Black Sea. Beluga, sturgeon, stellate sturgeon, herring, anchovy (Black Sea anchovy), sprat, sprat, mullet, red mullet, horse mackerel, mackerel, flounder, bonito, tuna. It is extremely rare for a swordfish to swim into the Black Sea. There are also eels in the sea - river and sea. Among the fish that are not of great commercial importance, one can note the goby, the ruffe, the pipefish, the seahorse, the stickleback, the sea dragon, the greenfinch - a small bright fish capable of cracking shells of mollusks with its teeth, the gurnard (trigla), and monkfish.
Previously, as many as 3 species of mullet lived in the Black Sea, but due to fishing and sea pollution, the number of the mullet herd began to decline catastrophically. To improve the situation, a bearing was brought from the Sea of Japan. This is also a mullet, but more unpretentious. It acclimatized perfectly, multiplied and now became an object of fishing for fishermen. Fortunately, the Black Sea mullet population has been gradually recovering in recent years.
The stargazer, sometimes called the sea cow, burrows deep into the mud, exposing only a worm-like antennae to the surface. With this antennae it attracts small fish and swallows them.
The pipefish and seahorse differ from other fish in that their females spawn eggs not into the water, but into special folds of skin on the back of the males, and the males carry the eggs until the fry hatch. It is also interesting that the skates' eyes and spines can rotate autonomously and look in different directions.
There are two types of sharks in the Black Sea: Katran (spiny shark, dogfish) and the small spotted shark scyllium (cat shark). Katran can sometimes reach 2 meters, and the cat shark never grows more than a meter. Both katran and scyllium are not dangerous for humans, although in relation to fish they behave like real evil and cruel predators. They eat everything that moves, even if they themselves are full. Katran meat is quite tasty. Fins, liver and balyk are especially good. Katran's liver contains a substance that helps patients with certain forms of cancer. There is even a drug called “katrex”, which is made from the liver of a Black Sea shark.
The Black Sea is home to not only fish, but also sea animals. Over the past 80 years, whales have entered the sea twice. Three species of dolphins live permanently: the harbor porpoise (Azov-ka), the bottlenose dolphin and the white sided dolphin. Moreover, the azovka and the white-sided duck have been living on our planet for 10 million years. Bottlenose dolphin is younger. She has been roaming the seas for about 5 million years. Real old-timers of the ocean. For comparison: man appeared on Earth about 350 thousand years ago. So it is quite possible that dolphins are our older brothers in mind. At least dolphins score 190 points in intelligence tests, humans are only 25 points higher. But these are human tests. I wonder how many points we would score in a dolphin test?
For the last 30 years, scientists have been concerned with the question: do dolphins have their own language? It seems that the search for the dolphin alphabet was not crowned with success. People have never learned to distinguish between individual “letters” and “words” in a dolphin whistle. Or maybe their language doesn’t consist of “words.” It is known that dolphins “see” in the water using an ultrasonic locator. They send a signal, it is reflected from the obstacle and comes back. Then in the dolphin’s brain it is transformed into an image, a picture. So why use words in this case? I just took it and sent it to my friend not a telegram, but a photograph. Maybe this is what is happening? There is no answer to this question yet. But dolphins are constantly studied in special dolphinariums, one of which is located in Maly Utrish.
Dolphins often come close to the shore and allow people to play with them. Games are games, but dolphins have impressive teeth, and the beast weighs about 250 kg. In the ocean, dolphins are not afraid even of sharks. They accelerate in the water and ram their noses into dangerous fish. Of course, when you see a dolphin near the shore, you want to make friends with it, but it’s better to think about what if it’s hungry and comes to hunt for mullet. You would like it if someone deprived you of your lunch, and even demanded that you play with him. Let those who mastered the depths long before people appeared on land rule the sea.
Sometimes sick animals are thrown ashore, as if asking for protection from the inhabitants of the land. In 1994, a real epidemic raged at sea. A virus similar to the causative agent of measles destroyed many of these cheerful and playful servants of Neptune. For quite a long time, dolphins have been the object of fishing. For example, in 1952, 300 thousand bottlenose dolphins were caught. Since 1966, dolphin fishing has been prohibited, although many of them die, suffocating in fishing nets.
The Black Sea has had many different names throughout its history. Each new people that came to its shores called it differently.
At the beginning of our era, the Scythians called the Black Sea - Tana (dark), in Iran - Ashkhaena (dark). Also, the Black Sea at different times was called the Khazar, Surozh, Russian, Scythian, Temarun, Holy, Taurian, Ocean, Blue.
There is such a fascinating science - toponymy, which studies the origin of geographical names (toponyms). According to this science, there are at least two main versions of the origin of the name of the Black Sea.
Version one. It was put forward by the ancient Greek geographer and historian Strabo, who lived in the 1st century BC. In his opinion, the sea was named Black by Greek colonists, who were once unpleasantly struck by storms, fogs, and unknown wild shores inhabited by hostile Scythians and Taurians. They gave the stern stranger the appropriate name - Pontos Akseinos - “inhospitable sea”, or “black”. Then, having settled on the shores, becoming related to the sea of good and bright fairy tales, the Greeks began to call it Pontos Evxeinos - “hospitable sea.” But the first name was not forgotten, like the first love...
Version two. In the 1st millennium BC, long before the appearance of careless Greek colonists here, Indian tribes lived on the eastern and northern shores of the Sea of Azov - Meotians, Sindians and others, who gave the name to the neighboring sea - Temarun, which literally means “black sea". This was the result of a purely visual comparison of the color of the surface of the two seas, now called the Azov and Black. From the mountainous shores of the Caucasus, the latter appears darker to the observer, as can be seen even now. And if it’s dark, it means black. The Meotians on the shores of the mentioned seas were replaced by the Scythians, who fully agreed with this characterization of the Black Sea. And they called him in their own way - Akhshaena, that is, “dark, black.”
There are other versions
From the point of view of sailors, the sea is called “Black” because there are very strong storms, during which the water in the sea darkens. However, it must be said that strong storms are very rare on the Black Sea. Strong waves (more than 6 points) occur here no more than 17 days a year. As for the change in water color, this phenomenon is typical for any sea, not only the Black Sea.
Many people wonder why the Black Sea is called black? Is it really black, and what is the reason for this name? The answer to this question can be obtained by flying over it on an airplane - from a height it really looks black, unlike the Mediterranean and other seas. But in fact, the question is rooted far back in history.
And the Bulgarians call him - Black Sea, and the Italians - Marais Nero, and the French - Mer Noir, and the British - Black Sea, and the Germans - Schwarze Meer. Even in Turkish, “Kara-Deniz” is nothing more than “Black Sea”.
Where does such unanimity come from in the name of this amazingly blue sea, captivating us with its radiant serenity? Of course, there are days when the sea is angry, and then its face darkens to bluish-violet... But this happens rarely, and even then only in difficult winter times.
And in clear weather from early spring to late autumn, the Black Sea will be remembered for a long time for its rich blue, turning into light turquoise tones as it approaches the shore... “The sky wants to be beautiful, the sea wants to be like the sky!” - V. Bryusov said poetically about this. And yet, who and when called this sea the Black Sea?
There is such a fascinating science - toponymy, which studies the origin of geographical names (toponyms). According to this science, there are at least two main versions of the origin of the name of the Black Sea.
Version one
It was put forward by the ancient Greek geographer and historian Strabo, who lived in the 1st century BC. In his opinion, the sea was called Black by Greek colonists, who were once unpleasantly struck by storms, fogs, unknown wild shores inhabited by hostile Scythians and Taurians... And they gave the stern stranger the appropriate name - Pontos Akseinos - “inhospitable sea”, or “black”. Then, having settled on the shores, becoming related to the sea of good and bright fairy tales, the Greeks began to call it Pontos Evxeinos - “hospitable sea.” But the first name was not forgotten, like the first love...
Version two
In the 1st millennium BC, long before the appearance of careless Greek colonists here, Indian tribes lived on the eastern and northern shores of the Sea of Azov - Meotians, Sindians and others, who gave the name to the neighboring sea - Temarun, which literally means “black sea". This was the result of a purely visual comparison of the color of the surface of the two seas, now called the Azov and Black. From the mountainous shores of the Caucasus, the latter appears darker to the observer, as can be seen even now. And if it’s dark, it means black. The Meotians on the shores of the mentioned seas were replaced by the Scythians, who fully agreed with this characterization of the Black Sea. And they called him in their own way - Akhshaena, that is, “dark, black.”
Other versions
The sea was so named because after a storm black silt remains on its shores. But this is not entirely true, the silt is actually gray, not black. Although... who knows how all this was seen in ancient times...
There is another hypothesis about the origin of the name “Black Sea”, put forward by modern hydrologists. The fact is that any metal objects, the same anchors of ships, lowered to a certain depth in the Black Sea, rise to the surface blackened under the influence of hydrogen sulfide located in the depths of the sea. This property was probably noticed since ancient times and, undoubtedly, could have served to assign such a strange name to the sea.
In general, the sea is capable of taking on a wide variety of colors and shades. Let's say, in February-March you can find that the water off the Black Sea coast is not blue, as usual, but brown. This color metamorphosis is a phenomenon of a biological nature, and it is caused by the mass reproduction of the smallest unicellular algae. The water begins to bloom, as people say.
Did you know that the lower layers of the Black Sea water are extremely saturated with hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which makes this water absolutely unsuitable for any kind of life, and the Black Sea is the largest reservoir of hydrogen sulfide on the planet. As we all remember, hydrogen sulfide is a terribly toxic gas, which in small doses is used for medicinal purposes and has the smell of a rotten egg, and in large doses, a single inhalation can cause instant death. Therefore, in the lower layers of the water of the Black Sea, except for anaerobic sulfur bacteria, not a single living creature can live. Luckily for us, the layers of water in the Black Sea do not mix, because if they moved, it could become the largest natural disaster since the end of the last Ice Age.
Why such deposits of hydrogen sulfide formed in the Black Sea, no one can yet say for sure. According to the most common version, it was like this: 7500 years ago the Black Sea was a lake - the deepest freshwater lake, the level of which was more than 100 meters lower than the modern one. After the end of the Ice Age, the level of the World Ocean rose, and salty waters poured into the future Black Sea. All freshwater life that lived in the deepest lake died out, and the product of its decomposition was hydrogen sulfide.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1899)
"Black Sea"
A sea of fairy tales and mysteries
The Black Sea protects!
The scent of legends is so sweet
The magic of legends is a magnet!
A sea of truths, revelations,
A sea of fiction and secrets,
Sea of thousands of generations
A sea of hundreds of thousands of countries!
Dmitry Rumata “Secrets of the Black Sea”
The sea attracts people with its mystery and inaccessibility. Its inhabitants are often surrounded by a mystical aura; human imagination places the most terrible monsters in the depths of the sea. The names are also surrounded by legends and myths. There is no exact answer why the Black Sea is called black. But there are a lot of interesting options presented by historians, geographers, hydrologists and sailors.
Legends and hypotheses about the appearance of the name
The diversity of names that different peoples have given to the sea is something to be proud of. No other body of water has received such an honor. It was named after its geographical location and then paradoxical facts emerged. For example, the Arabs called it Northern, and the Greeks called it Eastern. Residents of the coast made their contribution, bravely defending villages from raids, for which they nicknamed him Kara-Dengiz, inhospitable.
Here are some guesses:
- Black Sea legends colorfully describe some events, and one can’t help but believe that at the bottom lies a heroic sword or a golden arrow, which can be used to divide the world in half, so the sea boils and darkens, trying to throw out a terrible weapon from its depths.
- Another explanation for why the Black Sea was called black lies in its wayward character. Storms, although rare, come suddenly, causing the water to take on a dark tint. After this, piles of brown algae and dark gray silt remain on the shore.
- The next version belongs to hydrologists, confirming the fact that the majority of marine life does not fall below a depth of 100 m. Important: the reason lies in hydrogen sulfide permeating the lower layers. Bacteria reign there, feeding on the remains of dead animals and plants.
- Sailors claim that a few hours before a storm, the water at depth sharply darkens.
- There are many reasons why the sea was called the Black Sea. Another version says that the name of the Black Sea was given by Magellan, who saw the expanses raging during a storm.
When was the sea first called Black?
Many people, flying by plane over the surface of the waters, note that they really look black and opaque. It immediately becomes clear why the Black Sea was called that. From space photographs it also looks like a dark spot, so the name is quite justified.
Over the centuries, the sea constantly changed its name depending on who was talking about it. There is no certainty about who came up with the idea of calling the Black Sea. According to some sources, the origin was given by the translation of the Greek Pont Aksinsky, inhospitable, black.
The Black Sea has long been the most popular summer holiday destination in the former USSR. However, despite all its advantages, it is fraught with a wide variety of mysteries.
The most basic of them, oddly enough, lies on the surface: why is the sea called Black? There are a variety of assumptions on this matter.
The main historical hypothesis refers to Turkic seafarers. According to legend, guests from the sunny Turkish shores first saw the Black Sea during a winter storm. Having received an indelible impression, the Turks came up with the name “Kara-Deniz” - “northern” or “dark”. This name was also an antonym for the Turkic name for the Mediterranean Sea - “Ak-Deniz”, i.e. "southern" or "light".
Ancient travelers from Iran did the same, calling the sea “Ashkhaen” - “dark”. They were echoed by the Greeks with their name “Pontos Aksinos”, i.e. "hostile" or "inhospitable".
Although waves above 6 on the Beaufort Scale are quite rare in the Black Sea, during stormy conditions the sea water takes on a very dark hue. And after the storm stops, black silt appears on the shore - this gave rise to another version of the origin of the name.
Black Sea - linguists’ opinion on the origin of the name
According to one version, such a gloomy name appeared due to the banal confusion that arose during the constant rewriting of religious chronicles. It is believed that in ancient times the word “beautiful” was synonymous with the word “black”.
According to another version, inattentive chroniclers missed just one letter in the word “chermnoe,” which meant “red” in Church Slavonic.
Judging by the Russian Synodal translation of the Bible, it was along the bottom of the Red Sea that Moses walked along with the Jews, thereby successfully breaking away from Pharaoh’s troops.
However, a mistake made, later repeated many times in other texts, unexpectedly changed “black” to “black”. No one was even embarrassed by the fact that the Red Sea is located at a completely different geographical point.
The Black Sea is a sea of dead depths, according to scientists
Hydrologists claim that the name arose due to the huge amount of dissolved hydrogen sulfide present in sea water at a depth of more than 150 meters. Hydrogen sulfide molecules trigger the process of metal reduction, sulfur oxidation and the formation of metal sulfides. In other words, this one paints all metal objects submerged to such an impressive depth black.
Various bacteria that have lived at the bottom of the sea for millions of years are responsible for the appearance of molecules of this substance in water.
Dissolved hydrogen sulfide is a product that decomposes all types of plants and animal carcasses that fall to the seabed.
There are no other forms of life, which is why the Black Sea is known among those involved in the topic as the “Sea of Dead Depths.”
Legends of the Black Sea
There were many eerie legends and myths among the Crimean aborigines:
- Many sailors have more than once had the opportunity to observe a strange glow emanating from the depths of the sea. Unable to come up with an explanation for what was happening, the sailors frantically crossed themselves and called this phenomenon “light from hell.”
- Another legend tells about a certain hero who hid a magic golden arrow in the Black Sea, with the help of which the planet can be divided into two parts. However, the sea was in no hurry to return such a valuable thing back, as a result of which its color changed radically.
- The theme of drowned men and women is actively exploited in many scary fairy tales.
- Today, those who like to tickle the nerves of their interlocutors often spread rumors that the sea allegedly takes the lives of people who are too frivolous about swimming in its dark waters.
Whichever of the above reasons is decisive, tourists should not forget about safety precautions, thanks to which no “evil force” will drag swimmers to the seabed.
After all, first of all, the Black Sea is a great place to relax! Crimea is not only sea and sun with numerous beaches, but also a piece of Russian culture! And if you come to Crimea on vacation, then don’t be lazy to visit the federal city of Sevastopol, which is literally full of numerous museums and historical attractions. The most convenient way to visit the city is by your own car, but do not forget that in summer you will have to experience inconvenience due to increased traffic. There are also unpleasant cases when, due to the high density of cars, the number of accidents increases. MTPL insurance policies are issued to companies that are not geographically represented in Crimea. Therefore, in the event of an accident in Sevastopol, it is most profitable to contact the emergency commissioners, who will take over the interaction with the traffic police, and if there is no need to call, draw up a European protocol and buy out the insurance case from compulsory motor liability insurance. Be careful on the roads of Sevastopol.
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