Organic debris drifting down looks a bit like a snowglobe.
Siphonophores, which I can best describe as looking a bit like a tree made of icicles, can grow longer than a blue whale, and are able to clone themselves for eternity. The fangtooth resembles a creature from the black lagoon, and some prey try luminous ink to distract it. Some creatures communicate here by lighting up themselves, which can look like sparkling stars, once again very space-like. David Attenborough even said in the narration “There’s life here, but not as we know it”. It has a transparent head filled with jelly, meaning it can look through its own skull! It looked a bit like an astronaut helmet, and the unusualness of the creature certainly bought to mind sci-fi and outer space.įrom the Twilight Zone we go deeper down to the Midnight Zone, which is even darker, and is pitch black all the time. These squid feed on lanternfish, and when all the lanternfish are gone the squid eat each other! One of their tricks is releasing a “smoke screen” of black ink, which appears rather smoke-like in the water.īut those are nothing compare to seeing the barreleye fish. This was even more so with seeing the bright red Humboldt squid, as space aliens have often been depicted as tentacled. There is very little light that gets to the depths of the ocean, and the darkness does make it look very like outer-space, and again it did look quite sci-fi seeing creatures like a swordfish, shark and pyrosome coming out of the dark. The Twilight Zone included 90% of all the fish in the ocean. It was described as “an alien world”, “the Twilight Zone” and a “Sea of eternal gloom”.
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In fact they found that the deep ocean is full of life!Īpparently there is more life in the deep sea than anywhere on Earth. They expected that with the lack of sunlight there would be a dead world, rather like the surface of Mars come to think of it. The submarine in the programme did look rather like a spaceship. Some of it was groundbreaking, as the depths of Antarctica had never been filmed before. We know more about the surface of Mars than we about the deepest part of our seas”.ĭuring the filming of this series, they went deep down into the sea. But I digress.ĭavid Attenborough’s narration noted that “The deep ocean is as challenging to explore as space. Astronaut does mean “star sailor”, and apparently scientists did use to think space was made of fluid at some point. The connection people make with the deep ocean and outer space has been made very often, science fiction certainly finds a lot of inspiration, and fiction about voyages to the bottom of the sea can be just as fascinating and mysterious as those about blasting off into space.
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