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.
Spotted orange legs carry a large crab across the dark sea floor in a shaft of white lightDeep sea fish with red eyes and an open mouth outside a portholeSwimming into a beam of white light, a pale pink goblin shark faces forward in the darkIn pitch deep black water, a long thin deep sea fish swims with lit yellow spotsA gray shark swims through dim water right above the rocky ocean floorFacing forward in dark ocean water, a pale deep sea fish trails long thin finsA pale pink dumbo octopus hovers in the sea between two bright white floodlightsSpeckled with blue spots, a small squid swims through dark water among othersA pale crustacean on the dark sea floor under a beam of lightDrifting in the dark water, a round red jellyfish shows a bright ring of blue fringeThrough a round porthole, a pale fish swims in a beam of light over sandy ocean groundA round red jellyfish floats in shadowy water with rainbow colors on its rimFacing forward in dim water, small silver fish swim with blue lightsA sharp-toothed fish swims with mouth open, illuminated by a white flashlight beamRows of white dots cover a whale shark swimming with small fish in black waterGulper eel swimming with an open mouth in the dark waterOpening wide in a bright beam of light, an orange sea anemone sits on the seafloorIn pitch-the black water, a red squid swims with bright blue fins and big eyesA gray shark swims in dark water lit by two bright submarine lightsFacing forward in the dark sea, a deep-sea fish with red eyes and a blue lureA spotted fish swims upward through the dark water into a beam of white lightBright red dorsal fins on a long silver fish swimming down through a beam of light in dark waterAnglerfish with sharp teeth swimming in dark waterCrawling across the dark ocean floor, a translucent pink sea cucumber casts a shadow

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