Adaptation is the name of the game when you live thousands of feet below the water s surface.
Dark ocean floor.
The ocean is divided into three zones based on depth and light level.
Lovecraft short story the call of cthulhu first published in weird tales in june 1928.
Bathypelagic zone midnight zone the bathypelagic layer is found between 3 281 feet and 12 124 feet just above the abyss.
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These black smokers are caused by volcanic activity at mid ocean ridges.
See how these deep sea denizens make the most of their deep dark home.
In 1977 scientists used submersible vehicles to explore the seabed and discovered vents gushing dark plumes of superhot mineral rich water.
This layer is also called the midnight or the dark zone.
R lyeh is a fictional lost city that was first documented in the h.
Until the development of sonar we knew very little about the ocean floor.
Although some sea creatures depend on light to live others can do without it.
Only a small fraction of the seafloor has ever been mapped at high resolution.
The deep ocean is dark very cold and has tremendous pressure from the overlying water.
Detailed maps require expensive specially equipped boats.
Deep in the pacific ocean near china is the mariana trench the deepest part of the ocean.
Water entering cracks in the crust is heated by magma and mixed with mineral sulphides then belched forth in dark clouds.
Over 75 of the ocean floor lies can be found within this zone with the continental rise starting here.
Sunlight does not penetrate to the sea floor making these deep dark ecosystems less productive than those along the continental shelf.
R lyeh is a sunken city in the south pacific and the prison of the entity called cthulhu.
Scuba divers can explore only to about 40 meters while most submarines dive only to about 500 meters.
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But despite their name these plains are not uniformly flat.
Scientific research submersibles have explored the ocean s deepest trenches.