here, you can just soak up the beauty, it's why people want to come, of course, but it's so sad at the same time because you know that at so many points across the shoreline, this won't be possible in even a few years' time. the dead sea is shrinking. this expert says it's entirely a man—made problem with the sea's sources dammed forfarming and drinking water. since the 1970s, there have been large water diversions pumping water out of the sea of galilee, westwards to israel and eastwards tojordan. and basically, we are slowly losing this very unique and wonderful kind of ecological system. it's so serious the ground around the dead sea is collapsing into huge sinkholes. for now, the art of preserving what we use is the message of this naked attraction. it's fascinating because you see so many people taking part