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Originally Posted by Harry Nicholson
Passage Through Bab el Mandeb
(Bab el Mandeb translates: “Gates of Weeping” - these are the straits at the southern end of the Red Sea across which slaves were carried out of Africa to the markets of Arabia)
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Did the Straits of Bab el Mandeb perhaps a dozen times each way on Brock ships; then on Lumen and then Luminetta every two to three weeks each way on the Raz to Jaz - Ras Tannurah to Jeddah charter.
The Red Sea always appeared the deepest blue of any of the seas I sailed.