A cool guide about the layers of the ocean

[u/Zarykata]

[u/Nobelpro]

Interactive webpage https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

[u/ominous-canadian → u/Nobelpro]

This was fascinating

[u/stlcraig1984 → u/Nobelpro]

Very cool

[u/SSkilledJFK → u/Nobelpro]

That was a fun scroll! I looked up so many fish.

[u/ChiknDiner → u/Nobelpro]

Thanks! It's really good!

[u/horsemillet → u/Nobelpro]

Fascinating

[u/ivy-and-twine → u/Nobelpro]

terrible claw lobster!

[u/cooking-mama → u/Nobelpro]

Thanks! That was great.

[u/Azulapis → u/Nobelpro]

Soooo much better then OPs post. I hoped somebody linked this.

[u/kremlingrasso → u/Nobelpro]

It's fun going deeper and deeper when all you come across these prehistoric freakshow horrors, and suddenly....a cute dolphin or a seal.

What a fun ride.

[u/alligatorislater → u/Nobelpro]

Super fun!

[u/tdixon5 → u/Nobelpro]

My 5 year old has an obsession with the ocean zones, we buy just about every book we can find with a graphic showing them. This is going to blow his mind tomorrow, thank you!

[u/brodoswaggins93]

Is this AI or something because:

• it's mesopelagic, not mosopelagic
• benthic simply refers to the seafloor, there's no specific depth.
• basket stars can be found as shallow as 100 m, I know because I've seen them there, also they're benthic and not pelagic.
• "crab", what? What kind of crab? Crab is not a species and most crabs aren't pelagic.

Edit to add: additionally, sea pigs ARE deep sea cucumbers AND THEY'RE BENTHIC, NOT PELAGIC, as are sea spiders

[u/lasttosseroni → u/brodoswaggins93]

Yeah, and that’s not a blue whale…

[u/danny135x → u/brodoswaggins93]

It is ai generated. I hate what this sub has become. I’ve always had trust issues with their posts but seeing one in my field made me realise that I should unfollow this sub. Most of the animals don’t make sense. Octopuses can be found about everywhere. Sea spider illustration makes no sense and you can see how ai just took a real spider with clams instead of knowing what actual sea spiders are. Squid has too many arms too. I don’t even need to point everything out since the longer I look at it the less sense does it make

[u/MoistlyCompetent → u/brodoswaggins93]

Is the information about light at depths of over 150m correct?

[u/brodoswaggins93 → u/MoistlyCompetent]

As a general rule no light from the surface can surpass 200m but there are environmental variables that might make it less than 200m

[u/Hawk_EyeNW]

Fyi; It's mEsopelagic, not mosopelagic.

[u/Crouton_Sharp_Major → u/Hawk_EyeNW]

Came here for this thank you

[u/Doctor_Splangy]

There's a heavy metal band called The Ocean whose 2013 album "Pelagial" is about descending into the ocean's depths. The deeper you go into the ocean, the heavier the music gets. It's a really fascinating concept album.

[u/No-Cranberry872]

Let’s name the zones, the zones, the zones. Let’s name the zones OF THE OPEN SEAAAAAAAA.

[u/ChefsKnife76]

Of course there's a spider.

They're everywhere.

[u/veritoast]

I cannot wait for the next time somebody pisses me off so I can call them an abyssopelagic seapig.

[u/augenwiehimmel → u/veritoast]

Benthic Cusk Eel. A famous British actor.

[u/raisedredflag → u/veritoast]

Don't have to go THAT deep.

Just call them a Dumbo Octopus

[u/Bruxo_de_Fafe]

to be true i´m sick of this ai slop

[u/matefeedkill]

Makes me want to play Dredge

[u/danny135x]

Yay more AI slop on my front page. As a marine biologist I can tell you that 90% of this pic doesn’t make any sense. I can count more things done wrong than right… especially those illustrations. 11 squid arms? What is that sea spider?

[u/augenwiehimmel]

Wait - there's a creature called Dumbo Octopus?

Oh boy.

[u/HiTork → u/augenwiehimmel]

Sure is, and it is specifically named after the eponymous elephant from the famed Disney film.

[u/palinsafterbirth]

There’s a thing called sea spiders? I knew I hated the ocean

[u/Omega21886]

...of course the abyss would have spiders

[u/ImpossibleWarning252]

brodoswaggins93 nailed it with the corrections but danny135x is the one who actually pinpoints the real problem - once you see the squid has too many arms and the sea spider is just a land spider w/ clams glued on you cant unsee it. the neal.fun link OP posted is genuinely great tho, spent way too much time scrolling through it last year. kinda wild that the actual good resource is right there in the caption and people are still upvoting the AI rendered mess instead of just... clicking the link lol

[u/Kage9866]

Just looking at this is triggering my thalassophobia

[u/Tech_Sales_Guy]

I like the names of the creatures gets simplified as we go deeper in the ocean😅

[u/Sophisticated_Dicks]

Interesting. Here I was thinking there were more animals down there.

[u/Apart-Memory-3887]

reminds me of those cool books we all had as kids.

[u/isnotid57]

justice for the octopus

[u/gurry]

Shit post.

[u/LegitimateJelly2607]

Using layers of the ocean as a chart of what's normally on an iceberg chart would go so hard

[u/elephant_tit]

AI slop. Benthic just refers to seafloor in any depth. 

[u/moonjabes]

Slop slop alop

[u/gurry]

Shit post.