Deep Blue Sea goes below the reach of sunlight, where the water is black and the only light is the light you bring or the light the animals make. About half the gallery is lit by the floodlights of a research submersible: a giant isopod crawling over abyssal mud, a goblin shark with its blade snout, yeti crabs on dark vent rock, a dumbo octopus, a Japanese spider crab, a coelacanth at the mouth of an undersea cave. Some of those are framed through the round viewport of the submersible itself. The other half switches every outside light off and lets the animals light themselves – anglerfish lures, the red and blue lamps of a dragonfish, firefly squid, a spinning atolla jellyfish, a pyrosome glowing end to end. Wide areas of dark water leave room for a title or a crop. Full UHD for desktop, streaming and print. Created by Jeff Dupler, using the latest in AI technology.

A note on accuracy: these are artistic interpretations of real deep sea animals, not photographs. Shapes, colors and details may not match the real species exactly, and the animal named in each image description is our best identification of that picture.

Deep Blue Sea – Deep Sea Creature Backgrounds

Deep sea animals in black water, from giant isopods caught in the submersible floodlights to anglerfish and jellies lit only by their own glow.
In shadowy water, a black viperfish swims forward with red eyes and a blue light lureSwimming in the dark, a black anglerfish shines with bright blue dots along its bodyBlack anglerfish with red eyes and sharp teeth in deep waterLong pointed teeth bare from a dark anglerfish swimming above the ocean floor with blue lightsAn anglerfish swims through deep black water with red eyes and blue lights along its bodyTurned forward in dark water, a black anglerfish bares long, sharp teethA brown deep-sea fish opens its mouth wide, showing long sharp teeth in pitch deep black waterIn deep dim water, a black anglerfish bares its long sharp teethSwimming in dark water, a black fangtooth fish opens its jaw full of long needle teethA bright green and blue sea creature in deep waterOval blue rings of a comb jelly shine in the pitch black deep sea waterAn oval comb jelly drifts in dark water, lined with bright blue sparklesTilted diagonally in the dark water, a comb jelly shines with blue dotsAn anglerfish opens its sharp teeth in dark water under a small blue lure lightIn pitch inky water, a blue anglerfish with sharp teeth shines with small lightsSwimming through pitch inky water, an anglerfish bares its long needle teethAnglerfish with sharp teeth illuminated by a blue light in shadowy waterSpotted with bright blue lights, clear fish swim together through deep pitch black waterSmall translucent fish swim together, their bodies spotted with bright blue points of lightSwimming sideways in dark water, a school of fish shines with blue dotsA school of dark fish with bright blue spots swim together in black waterOn the dark ocean floor, a pale blobfish swims over sand under harsh white lightSwimming forward, a pale blobfish faces ahead in murky blue waterPale blobfish swimming in dim ocean water

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