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 dark deep sea fish swims forward with red eyes and an open mouth in blue waterDrifting in profile in the dark sea, a pale dumbo octopus under a spotlightA deep sea fish swims with open jaws, illuminated by a line of small green lightsLong thin antennae arch outward from a pale isopod standing on the deep ocean floor under a white spotlightPale fish on the sandy sea floor lit by two floodlightsFloating in dim water, long beaded chains of a siphonophore shine greenIn a beam of light in shadowy water, a small red comb jelly drifts aloneTiny speckled blue squid swim through dark ocean water inside a round porthole frameFacing forward in dark water, a deep sea viperfish opens its mouth of long teethA jellyfish floats in dark water with a bright red ring and blue rim edgesWith a fringe of spiked tentacles, a cup-shaped sea anemone stands in the deep dark seaA school of small shiny silver fish swims through black waterSwimming through dim water, a gray shark passes under a beam of white lightIn a dark underwater cave, a spotted dark fish swims toward pale lightA long black eel swims with its mouth wide open through dim ocean waterFacing upward in the dark water, a slender swordfish is lit by two searchlightsA small red octopus swims through deep water with light blue webbing between its armsSharp needle teeth bared on a deep-sea fish seen outside a blue round porthole window in the black waterAnglerfish with an open mouth and bright green lure in dim waterShowing sharp white teeth, a black anglerfish swims with a bright lure overheadIn dark deep water, a hairy white crab sits on a rock under a bright beam of lightA fish stands on thin spidery fins on the dark seafloor under a round overhead lightTurned sideways in deep water, a gray shark with a bright blue line swims forwardA pale shark swims near the sandy bottom under a bright beam of white light

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