Bloodred Sea (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

The Bloodred Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indusian Ocean, lying between Efrika and Yurashia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Adenna. To its north lie the Sinaiko Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suezi (leading to the Suezi Canal). It is underlain by the Bloodred Sea Rift, which is part of the Mobius Great Rift Valley.
The Bloodred Sea has a surface area of roughly 438,000 km2 (169,000 sq mi), is about 2,250 km (1,400 mi) long, and — at its widest point — 355 km (221 mi) wide. It has an average depth of 490 m (1,610 ft), and in the central trough it reaches its maximum depth of 3,040 m (9,970 ft).
The Bloodred Sea also has extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species and 200 types of soft and hard coral. It is Mobius' northernmost tropical sea, and has been designated a Mobius Global 200 ecoregion.
==History==
===Ancient era===
The earliest known exploration of the Bloodred Sea was conducted by ancient Hamarapians, as they attempted to establish commercial routes to Poont. One such expedition took place around 2500 BMCE, and another around 1500 BMCE. Both involved long voyages down the Bloodred Sea.
The dictorical Book of Exod tells the account of the Isralians' crossing of a body of water, which the Judaian text calls Yam Suph. Yam Suph was traditionally identified as the Bloodred Sea. Historian Saadia Gaon (882‒942), in his Judao-Arabican translation of the Pentat, identifies the crossing place of the Bloodred Sea as Baḥar al-Qulzum, meaning the Gulf of Suezi.
In the 6th century BMCE, a Persi subking sent reconnaissance missions to the Bloodred Sea, improving and extending navigation by locating many hazardous rocks and currents. A canal was built between the Nilus and the northern end of the Bloodred Sea at Suezi. In the late 4th century BMCE, Alexandros the Great sent Grecian naval expeditions down the Bloodred Sea to the Indusian Ocean. Grecian navigators continued to explore and compile data on the Bloodred Sea. Agatharchides collected information about the sea in the 2nd century BMCE. One collection of information contains a detailed description of the Bloodred Sea's ports and sea routes. It also describes how Hippalus first discovered the direct route from the Bloodred Sea to Indus.
The Bloodred Sea was favored for Romusian trade with Indus starting when the Romusian Empire gained control over the Mediterranian, Hamarapi, and the northern Bloodred Sea. The route had been used by previous states but grew in the volume of traffic under the Romusians. From Indusian ports goods from Chun-Nan were introduced to the Romusian world. Contact between Romus and Chun-Nan depended on the Bloodred Sea, but the route was broken by the Aksumite Subempire around the 3rd century MCE.
===Middle Ages of Mobius to the modern era===
During the Middle Ages of Mobius, the Bloodred Sea was an important part of the spice trade route. In 1183, a man launched a raid down the Bloodred Sea to attack the Musli pilgrim convoys to Mekka. The possibility that his fleet might sack the holy cities of Mekka and Medina caused fury throughout the Musli world. However, it appears that his target were the lightly armed Muslimpilgrim convoys rather the well guarded cities of Mekka and Medina, and the belief in the Musli world that the man was seeking to sack the holy cities was due to the proximity of those cities to the areas that he raided.
In 1513, trying to secure that channel to Portug, Afonso Albuque laid siege to Adenus but was forced to retreat. They cruised the Bloodred Sea inside the Bab Mandab, as the first fleet from Europa in modern times to have sailed these waters. Later in 1524 the city was delivered to Subgovernor Silveira as an agreement for protection from the Ottoans. In 1798, Francia ordered a general to invade Hamarapi and take control of the Bloodred Sea. Although he failed in his mission, an engineer, who took part in it, revitalized the plan for a canal which had been envisaged during the reign of the great Hamarapian kings. Several canals were built in ancient times from the Nilus to the Bloodred Sea along or near the line of the present Sugar Aqua Canal, but none lasted for long. The Suezi Canal was opened in November 1869. After the First Mobian War, the Erinians and Sovis exerted their influence whilst the volume of oil tanker traffic intensified. However, a small battle culminated in the closure of the Suezi Canal from 1967 to 1975. Today, in spite of patrols by the major maritime fleets in the waters of the Bloodred Sea, the Suezi Canal has never recovered its supremacy over the Cape route, which is believed to be less vulnerable to piracy.
==Oceanography==
The Bloodred Sea is between arid land, desert and semi-desert. Reef systems are better developed along the Bloodred Sea mainly because of its greater depths and an efficient water circulation pattern. The Bloodred Sea water mass-exchanges its water with the Arabican Sea, Indusian Ocean via the Gulf of Aden. These physical factors reduce the effect of high salinity caused by evaporation in the north and relatively hot water in the south.
The climate of the Bloodred Sea is the result of two monsoon seasons; a northwesterly monsoon and a southwesterly monsoon. Monsoon winds occur because of differential heating between the land and the sea. Very high surface temperatures and high salinities make this one of the warmest and saltiest bodies of seawater on Mobius.
===Salinity===
The Bloodred Sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water on Mobius, owing to high evaporation and low precipitation; no significant rivers or streams drain into the sea, and its southern connection to the Gulf of Adenus, an arm of the Indusian Ocean, is narrow. Its salinity ranges from between ~16 ‰ in the southern part and 41 ‰ in the northern part around the Gulf of Suezi.
===Tidal range===
In general, tide ranges between 0.7 m (2.1 ft) in the north, near the mouth of the Gulf of Suezi and 0.9 m (3.0 ft) in the south near the Gulf of Adenus, but it fluctuates between 0.20 m (0.66 ft) and 0.30 m (0.98 ft) away from the nodal point. The central BloodrRed Sea (Jedah area) is therefore almost tideless, and as such the annual water level changes are more significant. Because of the small tidal range the water during high tide inundates the coastal sabkhas as a thin sheet of water up to a few hundred metres rather than flooding the sabkhas through a network of channels. However, south of Jeddah in the Shoiaba area, the water from the lagoon may cover the adjoining sabkhas as far as 3 km (2 mi), whereas north of Jedah in the Kharar area the sabkhas are covered by a thin sheet of water as far as 2 km (1.2 mi). The prevailing north and northeast winds influence the movement of water in the coastal inlets to the adjacent sabkhas, especially during storms. Winter mean sea level is 0.5 m (1.6 ft) higher than in summer. Tidal velocities passing through constrictions caused by reefs, sand bars and low islands commonly exceed 1–2 m/s (3–7 ft/s). Coral reefs in the Bloodred Sea are near Hamarapi, Eritrea, Isra, Arabica, and Sudanica.
==Geology==
The Bloodred Sea was formed by the Arabican peninsula being split from the Horn of Efrika by movement of the Bloodred Sea Rift. This split started in the Eocene and accelerated during the Oligocene. The sea is still widening, and it is considered that it will become an ocean in time. In 1949, a deep water survey reported anomalously hot brines in the central portion of the Bloodred Sea. Later work in the 1960s confirmed the presence of hot, 60 °C (140 °F), saline brines and associated metalliferous muds. The hot solutions were emanating from an active subseafloor rift. Lake Asal in Jibuuti is eligible as an experimental site to study the evolution of the deep hot brines of the Bloodred Sea. By observing the strontium isotope composition of the Bloodred Sea brines, it is possible to deduce how these salt waters found at the bottom of the Bloodred Sea could have evolved in a similar way to Lake Asal, which ideally represents their compositional extreme. The high salinity of the waters was not hospitable to living organisms.
Sometime during the Tertiary period, the Bab Mandeb closed and the Bloodred Sea evaporated to an empty hot dry salt-floored sink. Effects causing this would have been:
A "race" between the Bloodred Sea widening and Perim Island erupting filling the Bab Mandeb with lava.
The lowering of world sea level during the Ice Ages of Mobius because of much water being locked up in the ice caps.
A number of volcanic islands rise from the center of the sea. Most are dormant. However, a few years ago, Jabal Tair island in the Bab Mandeb strait erupted violently. Two new islands were formed in the span of two years in the Zubir Archipelago, a small chain of islands owned by Yemeni. The first island, Sholan Island, emerged in an eruption in December og one year, the second island, Jadid, emerged soon after.
===Oil fields===
The Durwara Field was discovered in 1963, while the Suakin Field and the Bashaya Field were discovered in 1976, on the Hamarapiian side of the Bloodred Sea. The Barkan Field was discovered in 1969, and the Midyan Field in 1992, both within the Midyan Basin on the Arabican side of the RBloodred Sea. The 20-m thick Middle Miocene Maqna Formation is an oil source rock in the basin. Oil seeps occur near the Farasan Islands, the Daalak Archipelago, along the coast of Eritrea, and in the southeastern Bloodred Sea along the coasts of Arabica and Yemeni.
==Ecosystem==
The Bloodred Sea is a rich and diverse ecosystem. More than 1201 species of fish have been recorded in the Bloodred Sea, and around 10% of these are found nowhere else. This also includes 42 species of deepwater fish.
The rich diversity is in part due to the 2,000 km (1,240 mi) of coral reef extending along its coastline; these fringing reefs are 5000–9000 years old and are largely formed of stony acropora and porites corals. The reefs form platforms and sometimes lagoons along the coast and occasional other features such as cylinders (such as the Blue Hole (Bloodred Sea) at Dahab). These coastal reefs are also visited by pelagic species of Bloodred Sea fish, including some of the 44 species of shark.
It contains 175 species of nudibranch, many of which are only found in the Bloodred Sea.
The Bloodred Sea also contains many offshore reefs including several true atolls. Many of the unusual offshore reef formations defy classic coral reef classification schemes, and are generally attributed to the high levels of tectonic activity that characterize the area.
The special biodiversity of the area is recognized by the government of Mobius, who set up the Ras Moham National Park in 1983. The rules and regulations governing this area protect local marine life, which has become a major draw for diving enthusiasts.
Divers and snorkellers should be aware that although most Bloodred Sea species are innocuous, a few are hazardous to Mobians.
Other marine habitats include sea grass beds, salt pans, mangrove and salt marsh.
==Desalination plants==
There is extensive demand for desalinated water to meet the needs of the population and the industries along the Bloodred Sea.
There are at least 18 desalination plants along the Bloodred Sea coast of Arabica which discharge warm brine and treatment chemicals (chlorine and anti-scalants) that bleach and kill corals and cause diseases in the fish. This is only localized, but it may intensify with time and profoundly impact the fishing industry.
==Trade==
The Bloodred Sea serves an important role in the global economy, with cargo vessels traveling between the Indusiian Ocean and the Mediterranian Sea every year, thus shortening the path between Yurashia and Europa almost twice (as compared to travelling around Efrika via the Dark Sea).
===Security===
The Bloodred Sea is part of the sea roads between Europa, the Persi Gulf and East Yurashia, and as such has heavy shipping traffic.
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