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.
Floating in the black water, a round jellyfish shines with blue rim light and a red coreOn the dark ocean floor, an orange crab crawls under a round beam of white lightSmall silver fish with shiny blue dots swim through dark the black waterAngled forward in dark water, a pink goblin shark swims under a beam of lightA great white shark swims forward with open jaws, illuminated with bright white light in pitch black waterSmall blue spots cover a silver fish swimming with smaller fish in deep waterPale pink dumbo octopus swimming down in a beam of lightSwimming past a porthole, a dark gulper eel curves its long tail above the sea floorUnder a spotlight on the sandy ocean floor, a pale giant isopod crawls forwardA reddish squid swims forward in dark ocean water with blue light under its armsFacing forward over the shadowy ocean floor, a pale blobfish swims into a bright light beamA black viperfish swims forward with bright blue dots along its bellyFringed by colorful fins, a red fish swims in shadowy water lit by two round spotlightsAnglerfish with sharp white teeth and a bright lure in the dark waterSwimming into a bright spotlight, a sawshark opens its toothed jaw in the dark seaOutside a round submarine window, a dark anglerfish opens its sharp-toothed mouthA gray shark swims through black water right beside a beam of white lightFacing forward in inky water, a small pink octopus curls its arms toward its headA large spotted fish swims forward through a beam of white light in deep waterRed bell with long pink ruffled arms, a jellyfish drifts through deep black waterA swordfish with a red fin swims through the dark water with light from aboveDrifting vertically in dark water, a slender tubular sea creature shines blue-greenThrough a round porthole, a pale hairy crab sits on dark rocks in deep waterA pale tripod fish stands on long thin fins along the dark sea floor in a bright beam of light

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