The Red Sea

"...But Captain, since you have seem to have made a special study of this sea, could you tell me the origin of its name?"
"There are many explanations for it , Monsieur Aronnax. Would you like to know the opinion of a fourteenth-century chronicler?"
"Yes."
"This writer tries to maintain that it got its name after the passage of the Israelites, when Pharaoh perished in the waters which closed in at Moses' command:

'As a token of this wonder

When the sea was rent asunder,

Turning red, it was then known

By the colour it had shown."

20,000 leagues under the sea - Jules Verne