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An All-Green Ocean
Pitch black is the color you would expect when traveling deep into the ocean. While this is scary enough, diving in and finding an all-green seafloor can be dreadful. We applaud the person’s bravery for opting to take the snap and hope they swam away fast after capturing it.
Green color can occur in oceans for various reasons. The most common one is the presence of marine algae known as phytoplankton which absorb light in red and blue wavelengths because of pigments such as chlorophyll-a, which shifts the color of the water to the green. Muddy waters in estuaries can also appear green.
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