The Deep Sea

Venture into the dark, frigid and alien world of the deep sea with scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

Mysteries of the deep fascinate us with visions of giant squid, sea serpents, and bizarre fishes. Challenges to exploring this deep world have been many, and few have ever ventured into this remote realmuntil now.

Journey there yourself in these pages filled with lively writing by the scientists who study deep-sea life firsthand, and who took many of these rare, beautiful images of living creatures of the deep. Rich with the latest findings about this largest habitat on Earth, youll discover animals that create their own light fish that see in the dark, and read about bizarre vampire squid, gulper eel and hatchetfish.

Monterey Bay Aquariums Natural History Series brings you closer to the living marine and coastal communities of the nations largest marine sanctuary, where youll come face to face with some of the more interesting residents. Produced by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Press, these books will stimulate your curiosity and understanding of the natural world.

Bruce H. Robison received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he studied the ecology of deep-sea fishes. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution he returned home to California and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1987, he joined the new Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, where he is a senior scientist. Robisons research has taken him throughout the worlds oceans and its depth; he led the first team of scientists trained as submersible pilots, and he directed the first use of ROVs for midwater research.

Judith Connor received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied marine ecology of tropical rocky shores. She is the author of Seashore Life on Rocky Coasts and co-author of Kelp Forests. As the director of the Information and Technology Dissemination Division at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, she works with an incredibly talented team on a variety of science, technology and deep-sea-video projects.