TIL: Why Is the Ocean Salty? | Today I Learned

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How is it that we didn't know why the ocean was salty until 1979? National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Bob Ballard explains why such a basic question remained a mystery for so long—and where his team finally found the answer.

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TIL: Why Is the Ocean Salty? | Today I Learned

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I thought it was because of all the tears of misunderstood sharks

Navetsification

Oh wow I always thought it was because of fish sweatting too much lol

mrodri

My parents when I was a little kid told me that a ship carrier was carrying salty and the salt felt in and that's why 😂😂

Billakws

what I find weird is I never thought why myself. lol

Zauchi

Because the land doesn't wave back

xenvantage

Nice to know. Before I thought that sea salt just came from land. Although the chemistry is different, I assumed that over a billion years, they would certainly accumulate there because I also thought that salt is just really stuck at the sea while water evaporates from it.

hilarymanuel

Well this is simple and full of knowledge. Gotta love that

aaaada

This would make an excellent YouTube short

BigSwagMoney

My country school teacher taught that salt in the oceans surfaced from deep within the earth. This was back in 1952. There are lots of things you'll never learn in modern production line schools.

danialholt

Thought it was because there was once people who had lots of salt on a pirate ship and the ship sunk with the salt

cbnevof

they Always told me it is because of whale sperm

eenzamenarend

Was there a time when the ocean wasn't salty?

brazmadsen

Thought of this with my captain. Thank you.

holohala

King Milinda: "Why is the ocean all of one taste?"
Nagasena: "Because it has stood for so long."
-- From The Questions of King Milinda

PlanetarPL

Why are so many endorheic basins salty? I understand that when water evaporates faster than it flows in the deposits are left behind, never flowing to the sea, but where does the salt come from if not from these thermal vents? The Great Salt Lake for example is 4000' above sea level.

brandonbooker