Stenohaline plants and animals could not have survived a global homogeneous flood. Since salt water is more dense than fresh water, a situation in which dense salt water is overlaid by less dense fresh water is stable. Stenohaline organisms might have survived the flood by inhabiting extensive pockets of salt water lying underneath the predominantly fresh-water deluge. Brine pockets have been described in recent literature. A simple experimental model showed the plausibility of a heterogeneous flood.