Splash and Bubbles
What is Brackish Water?
Clip: Episode 37 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
Sal, the sockeye salmon, teaches the kids about salt, fresh, and brackish water.
The kids venture out to find the end of the ocean and discover a sockeye salmon, Sal, who teaches them about the difference between freshwater and seawater, and about where all the water goes beyond the ocean.
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Splash and Bubbles
What is Brackish Water?
Clip: Episode 37 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
The kids venture out to find the end of the ocean and discover a sockeye salmon, Sal, who teaches them about the difference between freshwater and seawater, and about where all the water goes beyond the ocean.
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- It does?
What's at the end of the ocean?
A wall?
- A giant crib?
Or maybe a giant rock that's all like, "No more water past this point!"
[all laugh] - Oh, I wish I had time to answer all these questions, but all this talk is keeping me from my big swim!
It's big, big, big!
- Wait, wait, wait!
Where is the end of the ocean?
Oh!
He said it was close, but all I see is water.
[together] Which way is it?
♪ ♪ - Uh, come on, guys.
We can catch up to him.
Come on.
♪ ♪ Uh... uh, Sal?
Hey, Sal.
- Hey, Sal, we had a question for you.
We were-- ah!
Where did he go?
- Coming through!
all: Whoa!
- Oh, and you kids should know, the ocean water ends, but not in the way you were thinking.
- Why?
Ugh.
How does he do that?
What do you mean, Sal?
- I said the ocean ends.
all: Whoa!
- I never said anything about the water ending.
- Okay.
Not only is Sal very fast, he's also very confusing.
- But Sal, if the water ends, the ocean must end too because... well, the ocean's made of water!
- The ocean is made of water.
That much is true.
But the ocean is made of saltwater, which isn't the only kind of water on earth.
- It isn't?
But-but Sal, wait.
We have another question!
- Yeah!
- Yeah, wait up, Sal.
- Oh, kids, I don't have a lot of time.
I got a big, big swim upstream in the river, which is made of another kind of water: freshwater.
- So there's two kinds of water?
- Oh, three, actually.
There's saltwater, like the ocean, freshwater, which has no salt in it, and then there's a mix of the fresh and saltwater called brackish water.
- So the two types of water can mix together!
- Sure, in places just like this, where the water from the river meets the water from the ocean.
- Oh, wow!
This changes my whole world!
Which is mostly made up of water.
- [laughs] - And there's places made of water besides the ocean?
all: Whoa!
- And he's gone.

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