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.
Drifting in dark water, a small squid shines with bright blue dots along its armsIn pitch black water, a squid swims covered in tiny bright blue spotsA small squid covered in bright blue spots swims through pitch deep black waterSwimming downward in dim water, a squid shines with bright blue dotsA shark swims diagonally through pitch-inky water, caught in bright greenish-blue lightPale green belly shining against black water, a slender shark swims downA small dark shark swims with bright green light under its bellySwimming through the black water, a bright green shark angles downward into the darkIn the pitch black ocean depths, a blue shark swims forwardA sleek dark shark swims through pitch black water with bright blue highlights along its skinAngling downward in the dark water, a slender shark shines with faint blue lightA dark shark swims downward through the black water, with metallic blue light along its backBright red eyes stand out on a glassy blue fish swimming through pitch black oceanSlender black fish swimming in dark water with red and blue lightsSwimming in deep water, a deep sea fish shines with red eyes and blue lightsIn dark ocean water, a black fish swims with red light under large eyesA speckled blue coelacanth swims near a dark rock cave under a beam of lightSwimming down through a dark underwater cave, a speckled coelacanth fish in a spotlightA blue spotted fish swims forward in shadowy water, lit by a round spotlight from aboveSpotted blue scales cover a coelacanth fish swimming near rocky sea caves under flashlight beamsA jellyfish with bright blue tentacles in inky waterFloating in dark water, a deep sea jellyfish flares blue and purple tentaclesIn deep water, a round jellyfish shines with bright blue lines and a deep red centerA round jellyfish shines bright blue and deep red in the dark ocean

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