Record · PS · 0012 · 120 m
Surface dust
Small traces of light follow the movement of water in the sunlit zone.
Abyssal Exploration Center
Darkness
is also alive.
There is another world beneath the world. Six thousand meters of water.
Scroll down: here, scrolling is the descent.
Descend
01 · Sunlit zone · 0–200 m
Where light
still reaches.
Surface movement reveals what floats in the water. Move your cursor: you are the current.
02 · Twilight · 200–1 000 m
Light gives way
little by little.
Every ten meters, the water keeps a little more blue. At a thousand, none remains.
Expedition · HALOCLINE–03 · 860 m
The water's boundary
Two bodies of water draw a boundary that moves without breaking. The image bends as it crosses.
03 · Midnight · 1 000–4 000 m
Here, the light
comes from you.
Move the flashlight. Shake it, and life responds with light of its own.
Record · FN · 0178 · 1 780 m
Nocturnal filament
Parallel filaments respond to a disturbance passing through the water.
Record · CD · 0214 · 2 140 m
Drifting crown
A faint crown travels with the current. Its segments leave broken traces. NEREID–09 changed course to follow it.
Two degrees. Three hundred atmospheres.
And still, something moves.
Expedition · NEREID–09 · 3 820 m
Veil Chorus
Membranes emit pulses in sequence. The distance between them changes the collective rhythm. A pulse never travels alone.
04 · Abyss · 4 000–6 000 m
The bottom,
at last.
A bed of fine sediment that took thousands of years to fall. Everything that dies above ends up here.
Expedition · MORROW–12 · 5 450 m
Mineral echo.
A series of pulses crosses the sediment at the end of the transect. Its origin remains unresolved.
Click the seabed: send out a sonar pulse and listen to what returns.