Silly me, went to look it up later, because little ol' me was told in the way way back when that is was on account of it absorbing air as it froze, but then how would that occur for water frozen in a sealed container? So my bad.
Ice on land was were I was going next, since that is accumulation from air. But also, bear in mind, sea ice also includes ice from precipitation, so not all is from the surrounding water.