Dr. Rodney Howard Browne leads a group through the Dead Sea. These are pictures of the event just days ago. The Dead Sea is a salt lake between Israel and the West Bank to the west, and Jordan to the east.

It is 1,378 ft below sea level and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of the Earth on dry land. The Dead Sea is one of the world’s saltiest bodies of water and it is nearly 10 times saltier than the ocean.

The Dead Sea lies in the Jordan Rift Valley and its main tributary the Jordan River has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years and was a place of refuge for King David.