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Merrowdeep Ocean Institute Water Column Grid

Twenty-eight animals from the surface to the deepest trench, in the order a dive would meet them. Go down and each card rises out of the dark as far as you scroll (Essential Grid 4.0’s reveal, With the scroll), while the water turns from blue to black. Pick a zone; one click opens the animal.

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  • A Portuguese man o’ war seen from just below the surface, its blue-violet float above the waterline and long blue tentacles trailing down
    0 mSunlight

    Portuguese Man o’ War

    Physalia physalis
    Not one animal but a colony of many, under one float.
  • A translucent moon jellyfish with four pale violet rings drifting in blue water under sun rays
    −6 mSunlight

    Moon Jellyfish

    Aurelia aurita
    Drifts through life with no brain, no heart and no bones.
  • An ocean sunfish swimming side-on in open blue water, its tall flat silver-grey body and long fins dappled with sunlight
    −12 mSunlight

    Ocean Sunfish

    Mola mola
    Up to about two tonnes: among the heaviest bony fish.
  • A green sea turtle gliding over a seagrass meadow in clear shallow water, its front flippers spread
    −18 mSunlight

    Green Sea Turtle

    Chelonia mydas
    Grown turtles graze almost only on seagrass and algae.
  • A dense shoal of silver sardines turning together in a curved column through blue water
    −30 mSunlight

    European Sardine

    Sardina pilchardus
    Swims in shoals of thousands that turn as one.
  • A giant manta ray seen from below, gliding through deep blue water with its wide dark wings spread
    −45 mSunlight

    Giant Manta Ray

    Mobula birostris
    Its brain is among the largest of any fish for its size.
  • A mottled reddish-brown common octopus on a rocky seabed in dim blue-green water, its arms curled
    −90 mSunlight

    Common Octopus

    Octopus vulgaris
    Tastes whatever it touches with its suckers.
  • A small silvery lanternfish in black water, rows of glowing blue light organs along its belly
    −300 mTwilight

    Spotted Lanternfish

    Myctophum punctatum
    Rises towards the surface every night and sinks again by day.
  • A small reddish firefly squid in black water, its arms and body dotted with tiny glowing blue lights
    −380 mTwilight

    Firefly Squid

    Watasenia scintillans
    Its body and arms are dotted with tiny blue lights.
  • A tiny mirror-silver hatchetfish in black water, shaped like a hatchet blade, with large upward-looking eyes
    −450 mTwilight

    Hatchetfish

    Argyropelecus hemigymnus
    Lights on its belly hide its shadow from hunters below.
  • A swordfish swimming side-on through dark blue-black water, its long flat bill and tall crescent fin softly lit
    −550 mTwilight

    Swordfish

    Xiphias gladius
    Warms its eyes and brain to hunt in the cold dark.
  • A barreleye fish in black water, two green tubular eyes looking up inside its transparent head
    −600 mTwilight

    Barreleye

    Macropinna microstoma
    Looks up through its own see-through head.
  • A long glassy siphonophore colony curving down through black water, fine glowing tentacles along it
    −700 mTwilight

    Giant Siphonophore

    Praya dubia
    A single colony reported at up to 40–50 metres long.
  • A deep red vampire squid in black water, its webbed arms spread like a cloak, two ear-like fins and large blue eyes
    −850 mTwilight

    Vampire Squid

    Vampyroteuthis infernalis
    Neither vampire nor squid: it eats drifting marine snow.
  • A slender black loosejaw in black water, its long open lower jaw and a red light organ below its eye
    −1,000 mMidnight

    Stoplight Loosejaw

    Malacosteus niger
    Shines a red light that its prey cannot see.
  • The huge square head of a sperm whale emerging from black water, its wrinkled grey skin softly lit, marine snow drifting
    −1,200 mMidnight

    Sperm Whale

    Physeter macrocephalus
    Dives more than a kilometre down to hunt squid.
  • A deep red crown-shaped Atolla jellyfish in black water, a faint ring of blue glow around its bell
    −1,400 mMidnight

    Atolla Jellyfish

    Atolla wyvillei
    Flashes a ring of blue light to call a bigger hunter.
  • A round black anglerfish with needle teeth in black water, a glowing lure on a spine above its head
    −1,600 mMidnight

    Humpback Anglerfish

    Melanocetus johnsonii
    Fishes with a glowing lure on its head.
  • A long jet-black dragonfish with fang-like teeth in black water, a thin glowing barbel hanging from its chin
    −1,800 mMidnight

    Black Dragonfish

    Idiacanthus atlanticus
    Lures prey with a glowing barbel on its chin.
  • A short dark brown fangtooth facing the camera in black water, its big head and very long fang-like teeth
    −2,000 mMidnight

    Fangtooth

    Anoplogaster cornuta
    Its fangs are among the longest of any fish for its size.
  • A thin black pelican eel in black water, its enormous hinged mouth opened wide and its whip-like tail curving down
    −2,400 mMidnight

    Pelican Eel

    Eurypharynx pelecanoides
    Opens its loose, hinged mouth like a net.
  • A small pale pink dumbo octopus hovering above a pale abyssal seabed, its two ear-like fins spread
    −4,000 mAbyss

    Dumbo Octopus

    Grimpoteuthis sp.
    Swims by flapping two fins like ears.
  • A small group of plump translucent pink sea pigs walking across a pale muddy abyssal seabed
    −4,200 mAbyss

    Sea Pig

    Scotoplanes globosa
    A sea cucumber that walks the mud on its tube feet.
  • A tripod fish standing on the soft grey abyssal seabed on three long thin fin rays
    −4,500 mAbyss

    Tripod Fish

    Bathypterois grallator
    Stands on three long fins, facing into the current.
  • A pale bigfin squid in black water, its very long thin arms bending outwards and trailing down out of view
    −5,800 mAbyss

    Bigfin Squid

    Magnapinna sp.
    Its thin arms bend at an elbow and trail for metres.
  • A large pale pinkish-white giant amphipod with many legs and long antennae on dark trench sediment
    −7,000 mTrench

    Giant Amphipod

    Alicella gigantea
    A shrimp-like crustacean up to 34 centimetres long.
  • A small pale pink, almost translucent snailfish swimming just above dark trench sediment
    −7,900 mTrench

    Hadal Snailfish

    Pseudoliparis swirei
    Found at about 6,000 to 8,000 metres, deeper than most fish.
  • A few small pale amber amphipods on the dark grey ooze of the deepest trench floor
    −10,900 mTrench

    Trench Amphipod

    Hirondellea gigas
    Lives on the floor of the deepest trench of all.

An invented institute with generated photographs of real animals; depths are typical, not limits. The reveal is Essential Grid 4.0’s Loading › Entrance › Reveal (With the scroll); where a browser cannot tie it to the scroll it plays per card, and with reduced motion every card is simply there. One grid, eleven styles

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