BRINE POOL REVEALED IN 1537, CONFIRMED IN 2020 When Antonio Manuus, now Hassan Veneziano, came to Farasan Islands (Arabia Saudi) with Suleiman the Magnificent’ armada, he observed that locals used to fish white coral. I wondered: what were they doing with dead coral? It has no use and deteriorates very quickly. Research led me to the genuine white coral, a natural masterpiece. It only grows -200m and further, with almost no light. Employed in jewelry, curiously not in Arabic peninsula, but priceless in India (another tesmony of the Indian presence in the Red Sea). So, if local Farasan were fishing it, an abyss had to be located near-by (Farasan boats and sails were made out of palm tree). I looked for any brine pool around in the literature, but most sciensts considered brine pools only to happen in mid-oceanic ranges. So, in my book, I only suggested it should be an abyss around. Fortunately, in 2020, research led by King Abdullah University of knowledge and technology and Carlos M. Duarte de Queseda, Director for the Red Sea Research Center, idenfied the Afifi brine pool, “the southernmost and shallowest of all brine pools”, 350m from the Farasan Islands.