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Your underwater eyesight?

Light is strongly refracted [redirected] in water in comparison to air.

You can see the effect by putting a spoon halfway into a water bowl
and you will see the water seemingly bend the spoon's image.

That effect [refraction] underwater can also enhance your eyesight by
focusing light; acting as....a water lens.
You can theoretically make telescope lenses out of water
contained in other transparent materials.

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