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.
In deep dark blue water, an anglerfish bares sharp teeth under its blue light lureA gray shark swims straight forward through dark blue waterLying flat on the ocean floor, a whale skeleton covered in pink anemonesA small pink octopus swims forward, its spread arms lined with bright blue suckersHairy pale legs carry a white crab across dark rocks near a bright underwater ventA red bell jellyfish floating in dark waterStanding on long thin fins, a tripod fish rests on the dark seabed in spotlightsUnder a bright beam of light, a pale pink shark swims over the seabedA pale green sea creature points upward through the dark water under purple lightAngled downward, a gray shark swims through shadowy water lit by a beam of white lightA small shark swims forward in the black water with pale green light under its bellyLong reddish tentacles trail behind a squid seen through a round submarine windowA fish swims forward with bright red eyes and an open mouthSpreading its arms downward, a reddish squid swims in shadowy ocean water illuminated by a beam of lightIn black water, a slender deep-sea fish swims forward with its long jaw openA pale blue segmented worm floats diagonally across shadowy water inside a purple frameFacing forward on a rocky seabed, an orange crab stands under a bright lightA pale goblin shark swims through deep water, lit by two bright floodlightsSpeckled blue tentacles lift upward from a glass squid floating in deep ocean waterA shark swims through dark teal water above a bright round lightFloating in dim water, a small jellyfish shines with a ring of blue and red lightIn a beam of light through shadowy water, a small white squid drifts downThree small silver fish with bright blue bellies swim forward in dim waterCrawling forward on the ocean floor, a pale giant isopod in bright light

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