Scientific research submersibles have explored the ocean s deepest trenches.
Dark ocean floor.
The lines you have pointed out are actually mapping anomalies.
Your instinct was right.
Until the development of sonar we knew very little about the ocean floor.
Lovecraft short story the call of cthulhu first published in weird tales in june 1928.
Only a small fraction of the seafloor has ever been mapped at high resolution.
The deep ocean is dark very cold and has tremendous pressure from the overlying water.
Bathypelagic zone midnight zone the bathypelagic layer is found between 3 281 feet and 12 124 feet just above the abyss.
Scuba divers can explore only to about 40 meters while most submarines dive only to about 500 meters.
These black smokers are caused by volcanic activity at mid ocean ridges.
R lyeh is a fictional lost city that was first documented in the h.
Adaptation is the name of the game when you live thousands of feet below the water s surface.
R lyeh is a sunken city in the south pacific and the prison of the entity called cthulhu.
The ocean is divided into three zones based on depth and light level.
Water entering cracks in the crust is heated by magma and mixed with mineral sulphides then belched forth in dark clouds.
Sunlight does not penetrate to the sea floor making these deep dark ecosystems less productive than those along the continental shelf.
Detailed maps require expensive specially equipped boats.
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Deep in the pacific ocean near china is the mariana trench the deepest part of the ocean.
This layer is also called the midnight or the dark zone.
Although some sea creatures depend on light to live others can do without it.
Sunlight entering the water may travel about 1 000 meters 3 280 feet into the ocean under the right conditions but there is rarely any significant light beyond 200 meters 656 feet.
But despite their name these plains are not uniformly flat.
See how these deep sea denizens make the most of their deep dark home.