Deep Sea Quotes

“The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“This is the "burglar-alarm" theory of bioluminescence: by turning on its lights, an animal may create enough of a scene to draw the attention of its predator's predator, and thereby perhaps save itself. The corollary of the burglar-alarm theory is the minefield theory. It says the reason so many animals tend to hang motionless in the deep, even fish, is to avoid setting off light explosions that would expose them to their enemies - their predators or their prey. Life in the midwater, in this view, is a tense affair (though the denizens do not know it) in which everyone is waiting stealthily in the dark, moving slowly if at all, watching and waiting for someone to turn on a light and for something to happen.”
― Robert Kunzig

“The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep, quite simply, makes this planet habitable.”
― Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

“Like the bioluminescent creatures of the deep sea
produce their own light
I also have the ability to create my own light
I am a powerful artist of life”
― Rhys Blanco, Affirmations for Glowing skin