This clip describes the unique characteristics of the Dead Sea that make it a tourist attraction. It also mentions that the Dead Sea is about 8 times saltier than the ocean, which makes it dense and easy to float. The clip states that the Dead Sea faces the issue of drying up because of industry activity in neighboring countries.
The crew is in the middle of a terrible storm and takes a risk to head into the eye. They decide to turn around and head in a safer direction, but they encounter an enormous rogue wave and cannot escape from it in time.
Jack describes the ancient climate shift known as the Younger Dryas. He states that, as the world was coming out of the last glacial period, melting ice sheets added so much freshwater to the Atlantic Ocean that certain ocean circulation patterns shut down. Since thermohaline circulation is a major source of heat for the surfaces of continents, the globe was plunged back into an ice age.