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 round pink prickly fish sits on the sandy sea floorResting on pale sand, a spiky round pink fish sits in the dim ocean waterOn the pale ocean floor, a spiky pink anglerfish rests on sandy groundA spiky bright pink frogfish rests on the pale sandy ocean floor in the darkCrawling low on the shadowy ocean floor, a giant isopod under two bright lightsA giant isopod crawls along the deep ocean floor under bright white lightLarge black eyes stare forward as a pale giant isopod crawls across the dark seabed under bright lightGiant isopod crawling across the sea floor near two bright lightsSwimming in inky water, an anglerfish bared sharp teeth under a bright blue lureIn pitch black water, an anglerfish bares sharp needle teeth under its blue lureA black anglerfish with needle teeth swims in the dark under a blue lureFacing left in dim water, a black anglerfish shines a blue lure over sharp teethA viperfish swims through deep black water with yellow dots of light along its bellyLong needle fangs show on a slender blue fish swimming through pitch the black waterA long blue fish with sharp teeth in deep black waterSwimming in shadowy water, a slender viperfish shines with blue lights along its bellyIn deep ocean water, a long siphonophore shines with small blue lightsA long thin sea creature curves through the shadowy water with blue lightsTrailing long bright blue tentacles, a tiny jellyfish drifts in dim ocean waterA long string jellyfish drifts through dark water, shining with bright blue lightWrinkled pale skin covers a frowning blobfish resting on the dark ocean floorPale blobfish swimming in dim ocean waterSwimming forward, a pale blobfish faces ahead in murky blue waterOn the dark ocean floor, a pale blobfish swims over sand under harsh white light

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