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It's all to do with refraction, when light rays "bend" as they travel out of one substance and into another, e.g. going from water into air.

Your eyes see the bent light, and your brain calculates (wrongly) that the light has actually come from somewhere else than it really has (because it does not know that the light was bent and cannot compensate for it).

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