Abyssal Zone Quotes

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

The deep sea is a scary world.

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.

The rising world of waters dark and deep.

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.

The one thing I've learned exploring the deep is that you just can't even begin to imagine some of the bizarre creatures that are down there.