Why is the ocean blue?

Answer 1

It is more Aqua in color at least in the pacific island.

Answer 2

The ocean is blue because it's water and water is blue. It doesn't look blue when you see a little glass of it but if you filled a 100 foot tall bucket with white sides and looked down from the top through all that water it would look blue. A lot of people will think this is wrong, a lot of science teachers will give you the bit about reflecting the sky which is wrong. The well written answer by another person who answered your question mentions more blue light being diffused and reflected by the water. This is correct, it's just a more complicated way of saying water is blue.

Here is something for people who tell you the sea is blue because it reflects the blue sky. The fact is both air and water are blue. Yes that's right. The sky is blue because air is blue. Have you ever seen a picture of Earth from space or heard the Earth described by astronauts as looking like a blue marble. This is because air and water are blue.

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MacChien

Answer 3

WHY IS THE OCEAN BLUE?
Sunlight is made up of all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Some of the sunlight is reflected off the surface of the water, reflecting the color of the sky. Some of the sunlight penetrates the water and is scattered by ripples and particles in the water (this tinges the appearance of the ocean with the color of the particles). In deep water, much of the sunlight is scattered by the oxygen in the water, and this scatters more of the blue light.

Water absorbs more of the red light in sunlight; the water also enhances the scattering of blue light. Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (an Indian physicist) won the Nobel prize in 1930 for his work on light.


Some Oddly-Colored Seas:
The Red Sea often looks red because of red algae that live in this sea.
The Black Sea looks almost black because it has a high concentration of hydrogen sulfide (which appears black).

Answer 4

Well it really isnt...but yet it is...The ocean is pretty much water...well as we know water is clear...so the water and the salt in the ocean make it look like it is blue because it reflects off of the sky..

Answer 5

It isn't. It's more than likely an illusion created by the reflection fro the sky (which is often blue)

Answer 6

because green was taken by grass yellow was taken by the sun and red was taken by apples brown was taken by sand....

Answer 7

Blue #4 (duh)