The deep ocean is dark very cold and has tremendous pressure from the overlying water.
Dark deep ocean floor.
The glowing mystery hole about 155 feet below the water s surface.
At depths of over 10 000 feet and covering 70 of the ocean floor abyssal plains are the largest habitat on earth.
Scuba divers can explore only to about 40 meters while most submarines dive only to about 500 meters.
Deep sea creatures photos adaptation is the name of the game when you live thousands of feet below the water s surface.
The ocean is divided into three zones based on depth and light level.
Sunlight entering the water may travel about 1 000 meters 3 280 feet into the ocean under the right conditions but there is rarely any significant light beyond 200 meters 656 feet.
See how these deep sea denizens make the most of their deep dark home.
Little or no light penetrates this part of the ocean and most of the organisms that live there rely for subsistence on falling organic matter produced in the photic zone for this reason scientists once assumed that life would be sparse.
Scientific research submersibles have explored the ocean s deepest trenches but most are designed to reach only the ocean floor.
Although some sea creatures depend on light to live others can do without it.
Scientists are flocking to florida s gulf coast for a glimpse of a mysterious 425 feet deep blue hole on the ocean floor.
Deep sea exploration has revealed varied landscapes which include volcanoes seamounts hydrothermal vents and cold seeps.
The deep sea or deep layer is the lowest layer in the ocean existing below the thermocline and above the seabed at a depth of 1000 fathoms 1800 m or more.
But despite their name these plains are not uniformly flat.