4/20/2023 0 Comments Abyssopelagic ep deep tuna![]() ![]() ![]() In clear ocean water, the light intensity decreases at least ten-fold for every 75 meters of descent, leaving insufficient light for photosynthesis below about 200 meters of depth, but still enough light to see at depths of 1000 meters. The color shifts from brilliant turquoise in clear surface waters to deep indigo and finally charcoal gray dimming to pitch black with increasing depths. We support an immediate moratorium on the development of new fisheries targeting twilight-zone species until we know enough about how these organisms accelerate the sinking and storage of carbon within the oceans to assure protection of that key function.Īs sunlight penetrates into the sea, it is transformed. New science has made it clear that life on Earth may well depend upon the startlingly strange and interesting organisms that live in the oceans’ twilight zone and that we must act now to protect it. ![]() Today, the edge of the unknown exists closer than you many think-in the sea, at the wonderful and strange, just-dark middle depths, where light fades and strange creatures lurk. The show, which focused on people’s experiences at the edge of reality, is among the best loved and highest rated television productions of all time. People of a certain age will recall being mesmerized-perhaps terrified!-by a television series called “The Twilight Zone,” which ran 156 episodes from 1959 to 1964. By Douglas Rader, Jamie Collins and Edith Widder, CEO & Senior Scientist, Ocean Research & Conservation Association ![]()
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