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.
Sharp red eyes shine on an anglerfish swimming with a blue lure through dark waterDark anglerfish with bright blue lights swimming in deep waterSwimming in the dark, a black anglerfish shines with red eyes and blue dotsIn black water, a small school of shiny blue hatchetfish swims togetherHatchetfish swim together in the black water with bright blue lights on their belliesSwimming forward in inky water, silver hatchetfish with bright blue belliesSmall deep-sea fish swim together in the dark, shining with blue belly lightsLong spiny fins support a pale tripod fish standing on the shadowy ocean floor in a beam of lightA pale tripod fish standing on the sandy ocean floorStanding on thin stilts, a pale tripod fish rests on the deep ocean floor in dim blue lightOn the shadowy ocean floor, a pale tripod fish props itself up on long thin finsA long silver and red oarfish curves through deep water in a beam of lightSwimming diagonally through shadowy water, an oarfish with red finsA long red eel swims through shadowy water into a beam of cool blue lightLong red dorsal fin along a silver oarfish curving through dark blue deep sea waterFrilled shark swimming in the dark water showing its sharp white teethSwimming in pitch inky water, a dark brown frilled shark turns toward a beam of lightIn pitch inky water, a dark frilled shark swims forward with open jawsA dark frilled shark with sharp white teeth swims over a rocky seabed in deep waterTurned toward the camera, a gray shark swims through the black water under flashlight beamsA mottled gray shark swims through deep black water into a sharp beam of blue lightRough gray skin on a sleeper shark swimming through deep black water lit by a blue beamA dark gray shark swims through black water toward a beam of lightSprouting from rocky ocean floor, pink sea anemones sit under a spotlight in black water

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