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.
A large fish swims past a submarine window with small blue dots shining along its bodyPale smooth skin on a swimming fish lit by a beam of sunlight over a dark sea floorA gulper eel swims with an open mouth in black waterDrifting in a cone of spotlight, a round red jellyfish floats in deep waterIn black water, a red squid spreads winged arms with pale spotsA sharp-toothed anglerfish with a bright green light stares outside a round windowFacing forward in dark deep water, a gray shark sits under a white spotlight beamAn anglerfish swims forward with open jaws beneath a bright blue lureWhite spots cover a dark fish swimming past a rocky reef into deep blue waterA shark seen swimming in dark water through a round windowSwimming upward into a beam of light, a slender silver oarfish has bright red finsIn dark open water, a small pink octopus spreads its curled tentaclesA red jellyfish drifts through dark water with thin tentacles reaching upLying flat on the shadowy ocean floor, a whale skeleton is lit by two bright lightsA clear deep-sea worm drifts through pitch black water, shining with pale green light spotsFurry pale legs spread out on a dark rock, a yeti crab rests under a cone of white lightA tripod fish stands on long thin fins under bright beam of lightSwimming over dark sea sand, a pale shark casts a shadow in a bright beam of lightIn dark ocean water, a gray bluntnose sixgill shark swims through a beam of lightA blue fish with sharp teeth swims past a round dark porthole windowSeen from behind, a brown squid swims upward through deep water into a white spotlightBeaded jellyfish tentacles drift through dark water with bright blue highlightsA giant eye looks forward as a reddish squid glides through the dark ocean water under a spotlightA small squid with spotted tentacles swims in dim water

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