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It's kinda like a rainbow... the sky really isn't all those colors, the refraction of light through the water (moisture after or during rain) creates a color prism, in the rainbows case a curve of different colors. (Think, the earth is round, all the colors refracting from the sunlight bouncing of earth, creates the curved rainbow.) In the ocean's case, the sky or atmosphere, which appears blue on a sunny day, refracts the light through the water/ocean, which makes it appear blue. Or in some areas, the water will appear green, which usually has to do with algae levels because the blue refraction (from the sky) mixes with yellowish particles of algae or other small particles in the water, and yellow plus blue makes green. If you were to take a bowl of water from the ocean, it would be clear, the only color might be a murkiness from debris, bacteria, algae etc.
and to whoever replied the tidy bowl water, get a life would ya?

2007-01-11 09:05:39 · answer #1 · answered by svluvsracing 1 · 1 0

It depends what is at the bottom of the ocean. In tropical areas that have a type of sand that doesn't murk the water up. So its clear looking. If you look at the ocean from birds eye view, it will look the color of what is at the bottom, but if you look at it from a persons view it looks blue regardless what is underneath it. This is because there you are seeing a reflection from the sky eg: the ocean is a giant mirror. The ocean will never look blue if it is a foggy day from a sea level view.

2007-01-11 17:24:43 · answer #2 · answered by jygolfer_72 1 · 0 0

Try this experiment when you get the chance. Take your bowl to the seaside and fill it with sea-water. Then have a look inside the bowl and you'll find that it is NOT blue. This will tell you that the atmosphere above the earth is making the sea look blue (sky for example).

2007-01-11 16:57:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

All water is clear. If you take water from the ocean and put it in cup is it still blue? The water acts as a color prism combined with a reflection from the surface below. Deep waters appear a darker blue because the surface is so far away that the light doesn't reflect it but you still see blue from the reflection off the waters surface. make sense?

2007-01-11 16:58:01 · answer #4 · answered by brett.brown 3 · 4 0

The sky is reflecting off the ocean, lakes etc. cb

2007-01-11 16:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by Silly2002 4 · 1 0

Large bodies of water appear blue because they are reflecting the sky.

2007-01-11 17:01:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Large bodies of water reflect the color of the sky

2007-01-11 17:00:21 · answer #7 · answered by skiiermandan 3 · 0 0

The sky....notice that bodies of water are darker when it's gloomy and how blue water is when the sky is clear.

2007-01-11 17:00:16 · answer #8 · answered by ghostwriter 7 · 0 0

It isn't blue, it is actually dark colour. The bottom is just pitch black but the sunlight makes it look blue.

2007-01-11 16:56:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

it depends on the deepness of it and also it is dirtier and there is no light coming from the botton of the ocean

2007-01-11 17:00:41 · answer #10 · answered by meowmix 3 · 0 0

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