31st july 2007 - where the sulina and gheorghe branches divide

"'O brothers, who amid a hundred thousand
Perils,' I said, ' have come unto the West,
To this so inconsiderable vigil
Which is remaining of your senses still

Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;
Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.'"

D. A. the divine comedies; inferno canto XXVI

after 70km going upstream we go one last time with the flow of the water southeast, down to the sea. The name of the black sea suits it well. Despite many long, flat, sandy beaches, it is a dark sea, without a hint of blue. not one island breaks the surface. it tapers down to 2500 metres deep and from a certain depth, the water is without oxygen, dead and hostile.