Eli5: Why is the Ocean two different blues?!

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I went out on the boat yesterday about 3 nautical miles out there was a wavy line and on the inland side it looked like a cleaner blue and on the other side it was dark blue?

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So was it a line parallel with the shore? Towards the island didn’t look as dark as away from the island? If so, it might have been a drop-off or a continental shelf of some kind. The continental crust ended in an underwater cliff, and there is now deeper ocean beneath you.

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