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Post #258663 by tiki mick on Tue, Oct 3, 2006 9:49 AM

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I have often wondered why the water in tropical and sub-tropical areas is so radically different from the color of the ocean in other areas, (like the california coast, for example). Even the mediteranean sea has that incredible, light blue or light green color. I want to say it's the coral, but you see this color in places that don't even have coral. Can anyone answer this?