And I did. I spent my time at beaches, staring at the water, wanting to go deeper and deeper but stopping myself. I spent it at pools in the deep end, trying to swim to the bottom until the force of ...

The image of the dark and light blue ocean is authentic and was captured by Kent Smith, who shared the photo to Flickr on July 4, 2010, and tagged Alaska as the photo's location.

"The water is gorgeous, beautiful, warm, clean - very clean," said Vincent Yannone, of Belmar. Drone video taken from late May over Belmar and Seaside Heights shows typically dark blue ocean water.