Insane Plan to Dry Up the Mediterranean Sea 🌊

Most people have no idea about the plan to dry up the entire Mediterranean Sea and turn it into a supercontinent.
Covering 2.5 million square kilometers and touching 22 countries, the Mediterranean was almost reshaped by a plan so wild it feels like science fiction.
In the 1920s, Europe was growing fast and needed more land. That’s when engineers came up with a bold idea: building a series of huge dams across the Mediterranean.
The first dam was planned at the Strait of Gibraltar, where the sea loses water faster through evaporation than it gains from Europe’s rivers. Without the Atlantic bringing in water, the sea would dry up, so the plan was to build a towering dam up to 900 meters tall due to the depth of the strait.
Next, a dam was proposed at the Dardanelles Strait to block the Black Sea.
Finally, a third dam between Sicily and Tunisia would have split the sea, lowering water levels by 100 meters in the west and 200 meters in the east.
This would have drained large sections of the sea and could have completely reshaped Europe.

#geography #mediterranean #sea #megaprojects #shorts #learn #learning #facts #worldmap #map #mapping #ship #travel