30 swimmers cross Dead Sea wearing special face masks
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Dozens of swimmers participated in a swim at Mitzpe Shalem beach. The goal: To raise awareness of the crisis in the Dead Sea, whose water level has dropped by about 11 meters in the past decade.
Some 30 experienced open-water swimmers participated on Friday in a five-kilometer extreme swim in the Dead Sea, initiated by the Dead Sea Guardians organization in cooperation with the Megilot Dead Sea Regional Council.The swimmers set out on a route along the Mitzpe Shalem beach, equipped with special face masks that allow swimming in the extreme salinity conditions of the lowest place in the world.The swim was held 10 years after the historic event in which swimmers from Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and other countries crossed the Dead Sea by swimming.
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