During most of the summer 2001 HyCODE field campaign a region of clear-over-turbid water existed near the 50 m isobath. Clear water (a(488)=0.05 m-1) was observed to exist in the top 10 m of the water column. At 10 m the magnitude of the inherent optical properties increased rapidly (a(488)=0.12 m-1) and continued to increase with depth to 20 m (a(488)=0.24 m-1) below which is decreased. Using the measured inherent optical properties we apply radiative transfer modeling to examine the difference between reflectance from a case with a homogeneous clear layer and a case with the subsurface structure present. By displacing the clear-turbid interface we examine how an internal wave field would modulate the remotely sensed reflectance. Measured remotely sensed reflectances are then used to determine if internal waves were observed.