ABYSSAL
Some things can only be seen in the dark.
A descent in five parts.
DEPTH 0 m / 24.4 °C / 1.00 atm
I · SUNLIGHT · 200–1,000 m
The machine, revealed.
She does not arrive. She is assembled from the water around you, part by part, the way the eye assembles a shape out of the blue.
Fully assembled, she waits at the edge of the light.
II · TWILIGHT · 1,000–2,000 m
The hull turns to glass.
Look inside.
hover the markers
Below, the last of the sun gives out.
III · MIDNIGHT · 2,000–6,000 m
Now the dark makes its own light.
Atolla wyvillei. The alarm jelly spins its light to summon something larger to eat its attacker.
Nothing here is lost. It simply waits for a reason to shine.
Melanocetus johnsonii, the black seadevil. Her lure is the only star this deep.
V · THE TRENCH · 6,000–11,000 m
You have reached the bottom.
Switch on your lamp.