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- Temperature
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@mysteresoceans
MYSTÈRES DES OCÉANS
Dive beneath the surface. Discover a world you never suspected.
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0 m
Sunlight floods the water. This is where every dive begins.
Sunlight zone
10 m
Still plenty of light, but warm colours (red, orange) are already starting to fade.
First great depths
50 m
Reefs, kelp forests: the most densely populated realm of the ocean.
Twilight zone
100 m
Light fades fast. Some organisms are starting to make their own.
Entering the dark world
200 m
The edge of the sunlit zone. Beyond this point, photosynthesis becomes impossible.
The deep
500 m
Near-total darkness. Bioluminescence becomes the main visual language.
Entering the midnight zone
1000 m
No sunlight reaches this far down anymore. The dive continues, far deeper still.
The heart of the bathypelagic zone
2000 m
Total darkness for a long time now. The species living here either make their own light or do entirely without it.
The abyssopelagic zone
4000 m
The abyssal plains begin here. In 1977, near the Galápagos, the discovery of hydrothermal vents at this depth upended biology.
Entering the hadal zone
6000 m
The least explored realm on the planet. This is where the ocean trenches begin.
The first great trenches
8000 m
Some ocean trenches already reach this depth, well before the deepest point known.
The Mariana Trench
11000 m
The deepest known point in the oceans (Mariana Trench). Crushing pressure, over 1,000 times that of the surface — and yet life still exists here.