Ship of Solomon

The Ship of Solomon comes to the mouth of the river and enters into the sea. At first, the breaking waves cause the ship to lurch in the troughs and peaks, but that soon passes and the vessel sails smoothly upon the mighty waters. The shoreline fades from view the promontory disappears. All that is left is the murmur of dark sea, the Grail light, and the stars overhead, bright as diamonds in a dark velvet sky. 

Tarshish was probably located in Tartessos (Spain). Tarshish ships, apart from being mentioned in this verse and in the legendary story of Solomon s maritime expeditions (1 Kgs 10 22), are known to have sailed only in the Mediterranean (Isa 2 16 23a, 14 60 9 ... 

For one reason or another, but always because of threatening human activities, Atlantic and western Indo-Pacific coral reefs are in poor condition, except the Lakshadweep archipelago, which has been banned from tourism. East Asian coral reefs are under stress by blast and cyanide fishing activities. Threatening constructions over the reefs were made during the last world war, and aircraft carriers and ships that sunk still pollute large areas, particularly in the Solomon archipelago. Plutonium remains from nuclear explosions at Johnston Atoll also make conditions unsuitable for life to exist. 

Then Solomon went to Ezion Geberon and Elath on the coast of Edom. And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own officers, men who knew the sea. These, with Solomon s men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon. 

Corrosion, Au st 25-27, Solomons Island MD) are several billions g f dollars per year and corrosion costs of ships are tens of billions of dollars per year. ... 

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