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Originally posted by Lane
Since we're talking salt water here, the water on top will be lower than 0 degrees
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If you are talking about salt water, all the water, frozen or not will be below 0 degrees C. When water has salt in it, it will freeze at a lower temperature (and for that matter, boil at a higher temperature than 100 degrees) To answer your question, it is too hard to draw a graph per say of the depth of water vs temperature because it would vary in every climate, size of water mass etc. Some people have said that the water on the bottom would be the warmest. This is furthest from the truth, the water on the bottom would be the coldest it could be without being frozen as it is the furthest from the light, and it wouldn't freeze because it is not exposed to the cold air. It would be the water in the middle that is the warmest.