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The ocean is blue because not only does the sea cut straight through underwater salt mines making it salty but also it cuts right into vast underground chlorine mines as well. These chlorine mines have a similar effect the commercial product you can buy that makes your pool blue. But because the ocean is deeper it appear bluer than your pool.

Why is the ocean blue - really?
The ocean is blue for reasons that are similar to why the sky is blue. Sunlight collides with air molecules and scatters blue light specials because the wavelength is short than the red light district and thus scatters more.

Once this blue light passes through the atmosphere and strikes the water molecules, thus taking a double hit, the blue light is scattered even more than Scatman Caruthers and the ocean even appears bluer than the sky. The ocean's water both reflects and intensifies, lifts and separates the blue light.

2007-06-08 19:16:52 · answer #1 · answered by Kristenite’s Back! 7 · 1 0

One common misconception today is that the oceans are blue primarily because the sky is blue. In fact, water has a very slight blue colour that can only be seen in large volumes. While the sky's reflection does contribute to the blue appearance of the surface, it is not the primary cause. The primary cause is the absorption by the water molecules' nuclei of red photons from the incoming light

2007-06-08 19:41:48 · answer #2 · answered by armyoflight45 2 · 0 0

The Sky, the ocean just reflects the sky

2016-05-20 08:56:44 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

the sky doesn't reflect anything. the ocean is dark blue AND GREEN because of the stuff that's in it. the sky is blue because of the special way sunlight comes through the atmoshphere and is "filtered" through the various gases up there (like a weird prism).

2007-06-08 19:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

ocean is blue because it reflects the sky on first glance however we discover that it is a different colour if we look at it closely unless the water is clear.

2007-06-08 19:14:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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