the.com/deepocean
Earth's biggest habitat, darkest neighborhood, and least-visited place all at once.
means The vast, cold, sunless waters below roughly 200 meters, where pressure crushes and light never reaches.
from Plain English compound: deep meets ocean, from Greek okeanos, the river the ancients imagined encircling the world.
Map gapMore of Mars is mapped than the deep seafloor.
CrushingPressure exceeds a thousand atmospheres at full depth.
Own lightMost deep creatures glow, since sunlight never arrives.
Slow snowMarine snow feeds it: dead plankton drifting down forever.