The Black SeaBy Dragomir IoanaPoşircă Atena-Ioana

•The Black Sea is the stretch of water in the basin

geomorphological called Pontic • One of the pools complex

tectonic tethysian himself part of orogenesis Alpine-Himalayan,

which includes mountains bordering it to the north (the

Crimea), northeast (Caucasus ) and south (Pontic chains).

It is located between Europe and Asia, with the bordering countries Russia,

Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia.

By Cherci Strait is related to the Azov Sea, through the Bosphorus to the

Marmara Sea and through the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea and so

to the Mediterranean Sea.

Location

The “Black” qualifier appears in the fifteenth century with the expansion of the Turkish Empire, and there are three explanatory hypotheses, all three discussed: •The most popular, but not confirmed by sources, says that the color of the sea in bad weather (in fact, under the clouds, all the seas are dark); •The theory most commonly cited in the Anglo-Saxon sources is that Black would be a translation of the Scythian axaïna; •Another hypothesis is that the name would have been given by Turks Selgiuci, then generalized around the sea, and lastly translated into Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian as these peoples have access again to the shores of the Great Sea.

The name

The Constanța CasinoThe Constanța Casino is a casino

in Constanța, Romania, located at 2 Elisabeta Boulevard along the Black Sea. Considered a symbol

of the city, it was built in Art Nouveau style according to the plans of Daniel Renard and

inaugurated in August 1910. The building is currently closed.

The casino hosted the Russian Imperial Family in 1914. During World War II, the casino was used as a

hospital. It became a restaurant after the war. However because it was too expensive to operate,

the building has remained closed since 1990. It was visited by people from all over, close to the

seaport. A relaxing place, with 2 lecture rooms, 2 ball rooms and new, unique architecture at that time.

The Casino legendIt is said that the building would have been built by a

navigator who had a girl. The young woman died at a very young age, when she was 17 years old. Grieving, his

father raised the Casino, for people in the city to share moments that his daughter wasn’t able to.

They say that if you look from the top, the casino looks like a hearse and the windows would suggest the image of graves. Moreover, if you look closely at the front door, you'll see the two heads of rams, an ornament that could

be found on old hearses. Legend says that during the summer, those who lost

gambling jumped in the waves of the Black Sea, which is the explanation for autumn and winter rough storms in

the cliff. The restless souls of those shake the sea to this day, washing the walls of the casino, once a symbol,

today a ruin of the Constanta city.

MV E EVANGELIA

MV E Evangelia is a shipwrecked 7,355 gross register tons refrigerated cargo ship at Costinești on the Black Sea coast of Romania. She was built in Northern Ireland in 1942 as the Empire ship Empire Strength and wrecked in 1968. The ship had four names in her career, having been renamed Saxon Star in 1946, Redbrook in 1961 and E Evangelia in 1965.

On 15 October 1968 E Evangelia was sailing in ballast from Rijeka in Yugoslavia to Constanțain Romania when she ran aground in the Black Sea off Costinești about 16 nautical miles (30 km) south of Constanța. She was declared a total loss, and there is a suggestion that the shipwreck could have been an insurance fraud.The ship remains a wreck at Costinești. Her back is broken, and two large areas of plates are missing from her starboard side, Costinești is a small seaside resort, for which the wreck is a local attraction.

COSTINEȘTI SHIPWRECK

Vama Veche

Vama Veche is a village in Constanţa County, Romania, on the Black Sea coast, near the border with Bulgaria.  It is part of the commune of Limanu and in 2002, it had a population of 178.

Its current name literally means "Old border checkpoint", named so after Southern Dobruja. Even in Communist Romania, Vama Veche had the reputation of a non-mainstream tourist destination, which has only grown since the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Accommodations consisted of tents or rooms rented from peasants or fishermen. 

While camping is theoretically not permitted, to this day, many visitors or semi-permanent residents still stay in tents on the beach.

Underwater

Black Sea undersea riverThe Black Sea undersea river is a current of particularly saline water flowing through the Bosphorus Strait and along the seabed of the Black Sea. The discovery of the river, announced on 1 August 2010, was made by scientists at the University of Leeds, and is the first of its kind in the world.

Underwater museumOrganized more than 15 years ago, this museum boasts a collection of busts of communist leaders and the heads of socialism throughout the history of the USSR — lined up on stone shelves and racks and buried underwater. It's without an official website of its own and without a lot of documentation, but the underwater museum at Cape Tarkhankut is considered a must-see attraction in Crimea.The organizers of the underwater museum are always open to adding new figures to the collection, which currently has more than 50 different busts. The busts are known as the Alley of Leaders.Known as a romantic and mysterious place, Cape Tarkhankut is at the western end of the Crimean peninsula.

DOLPHINSDolphins are the only whales occuring in the Black Sea: they are small-sized toothed whales. Dolphin's brain have one very unique feature: it never sleeps. Left and right hemispheres of dolphin's brain sleep in turns, one after another, because dolphin need to emerge on surface for breathing. At night this diving-surfacing behavior is controlled by the two brain hemispheres working in shifts.

Still something makes us treat dolphins in somewhat different way than other human-friendly animals. Joyful, cute, nice, friendly - all true about dolphins. And, yes - they sometimes helped people in the sea. Kids (and adult people too!) love playing with them in oceanariums, at dolphin shows: dolphins themselves come and play with people. Also, dolphins always smile! Of course, one might say that it's just structure of their sculls and facial muscles... Still - they smile, and their smile looks more genuine and sincere than smiles of many people; this big smile on a big face with big cheerful eyes - it makes everyone smile too. Usually, after swimming with dolphins, people keep on smiling (with no other special reason) half an hour - on the average. A course of dolphin therapy helped many kids suffering nervous disorders.

↓ Common dolphins in the Black Sea

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