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.
Gliding downward in deep water, a reddish squid with blue highlightsA reddish squid spreads its webbed arms in dark water with bright blue tips on its finsLarge blue eyes on a reddish squid drifting in the shadowy water with blue tipped finsRed squid spreading webbed arms with bright blue spots in dim waterSwimming through pitch-deep black water, a pale pink goblin shark angles toward the lightIn pitch-black ocean water, a pink goblin shark swims toward the dark frontA pink goblin shark swims forward in dark ocean water near a distant lightAngled downward in dark water, a pink goblin shark swims past bubblesA blunt-nosed shark swims along the dark seabed, lit with pale blue-green eyesPale green eyes stare forward as a dark shark glides over the rocky seabed under dim lightA gray shark with green eyes swims over dark rocksSwimming near the dark ocean floor, a gray shark has bright blue-green eyesOn the dim ocean floor, a cluster of spiky pink sea slugs rests under lightSeveral pale pink sea pigs crawl together across the deep ocean floorResting side by side on the dark seabed, pale pink fish huddle in the lightPale pink sea pigs crawl across dark sand under a soft downward beam of lightThin curved tentacles flare from an orange sea anemone standing on the shadowy ocean floorAn orange sea anemone bent sideways on the shadowy ocean floorRooted in the sandy seabed, an orange sea anemone spreads thin tentacles in the shadowy oceanIn the black ocean depths, an orange sea anemone opens wide on the seabedA dark red jellyfish with thin white tentacles swims through pitch black waterDrifting diagonally downward in the dark sea, a red jellyfish trails thin tentaclesA red deep-sea jellyfish floats in the dark, shining with light blue streaksThin reddish tentacles trail from a jellyfish swimming over the dark ocean rocks

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