Aiming at the problems of underwater acoustic communication such as narrowband, low speed and multipath effect, this paper studies the high-speed communication technology of electromagnetic wave in short distance at sea. The channel model of seawater electromagnetic wave is given, and the performance of different modulation modes in this channel is analyzed. A meth-od of seawater short-range high-speed electromagnetic wave communication based on OFDM is proposed. In order to reduce the BER of the system, a method of allocating different modulation modes to subcarriers in seawater channel is introduced, which combines frequency domain equalization. This method has low complexity, improves the utilization of frequency band, and improves the reliability. It can realize high-speed and reliable communication in short distance in seawater.